Dead to the World (Gaia Files Book 1) by R.J. Sierra

Author:R.J. Sierra [Sierra, R.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2021-01-11T16:00:00+00:00

18

Next morning, I woke up way too damned soon after a shitty so-called night's sleep. Between worrying about finding Aggie's killer and obsessing about my secret past, I don't think I put together more than fifteen minutes of sleep at a time. So much for going into the big day well-rested.

Did I mention Laurel's snoring? She sounded like a wart hog snorting up turnips in a mud bog, all night long—a room and a door away, and she might as well have been lying right next to me. So much for the grace and tranquility of the Allegheny Mountains. At least she got her beauty sleep.

I thought about going for a run to snap myself out of it, but the boys showed up before I got my sneakers on. Briar and Owen rang the doorbell at precisely 5:55 A.M. They looked so annoyingly refreshed, I wanted to kick their asses...but I forgave them because they brought coffee. And doughnuts.

"Breakfast!" Laurel bounced off the couch the second the food hit the apartment. Even in my borrowed blue flannel pajamas, she looked totally pulled together—eyes twinkling, complexion smooth and creamy, flowing brown hair barely mussed. It was like she'd just finished fixing her hair and makeup instead of sleeping on a couch for nine hours. Which kind of made me hate her. Made me think maybe I didn't want to be her long-lost best friend after all.

But I showed her. Just as she was grabbing for the box of doughnuts in Briar's hands, I snatched it away. "Wait." I grabbed a coffee from the tray Owen was carrying and marched toward the kitchen like a monster. She would not get first pick of the doughnuts after keeping me up all fucking night.

I heard Laurel talking behind me. "Is she always like this in the morning?"

"Actually," said Briar, "she's usually a morning person."

"Usually," I said from the kitchen as I tore open the box of doughnuts and inhaled a chocolate honey-glazed like it was a breath of air.

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