KAYLEE
The scream woke me up, the sound wrapping around my heart like icy fingers and squeezing hard. Gasping, I sat up, eyes wide and my heart threatening to beat right out of my chest.
For a second, I couldn’t comprehend what was happening or where I was. Had I heard a scream or had it been a dream? My vision blurred and my ears rang as my senses scrambled to process all the data my brain received.
The room was dim, the only light source coming from an ajar door on the other side of the room. For a second, I studied the few inches I could see through and realized it was a bathroom. I blinked, trying to clear my scrambled thoughts even as the mattress shifted and the sound of hurried footsteps cut through the air.
Alarm bells went off in my head, and my gaze immediately landed o
