Kissing Frogs by Tori Turnbull

Author:Tori Turnbull [Turnbull, Tori]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tori Turnbull
Published: 2018-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

You look like the type of girl who’s heard every line in the book…so what’s one more?

I was dying.

Groaning, I attempted to open my eyes and sit up, then thought better of it and lay still. The bed was spinning. I fisted my hands in the covers and held on tight to stop myself being thrown off. I choked back waves of nausea, deep-breathing to try and ease the pulsing hammering in my head. Weak tears trickled down the sides of my face.

Breathe.

In.

Out.

In.

Out.

Okay. Okay. If my headache was pulsing so strongly, it was unlikely I was dying.

I just wished I was.

I struggled to let go of the bedding and reach a flailing arm out to silence the brain-shattering bleeping of the alarm that woke me. Only it wasn’t my bedside alarm… Which meant it was the smoke detector blaring in the hallway.

My arm fell back to the bed. I couldn’t move. I’d just have to burn to death. Hopefully, the smoke would get me first.

Smoke eased around my bedroom door, bringing with it the nauseating smell of burning toast. Okay, I wasn’t going to die. The pop-up button hadn’t worked on my toaster for years. I knew well enough to keep an eye on it once I’d put the bread in, to jiggle the pop-up button when it looked ready and (ignoring health and safety) use a knife to pry my toast free before it started smoking.

Safe? No.

Effective? Yes.

My stomach flipped before surging upwards. I battled back a tsunami of bile, breathing through my mouth to avoid the additional scent of frying bacon.

I could hear cursing.

There was someone in my flat?

A man. Who was cooking and cursing.

Something nagged in the back on my mind… I should know who he was, but my brain hurt too much and I couldn’t think. Another tear trickled from the corner of my eye to dribble down my cheek.

I was ill.

Really, really sick, and it was so noisy and I just wanted to sleep.

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