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Chapter 21: Too Hot
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2026-10-31 14:23:30
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Bitten After Midnight Chapter 22: What Are You?
DelaneyI slept through most of the drive. Or passed out.At this point, the distinction felt pretty thin. Every time I surfaced, I was aware of warmth beside me. Kellan. He sat in the backseat with me because apparently I had graduated from mildly concerning college freshman to full-time medical emergency.My head rested against his shoulder. His arm stayed around me. Usually, I would’ve complained. Usually, I would’ve made some smart-ass comment about personal space and moved. Instead, I curled closer every time the SUV hit a bump.I was too tired to care. Too hot. Too hungry. Too everything.By the time we finally stopped, the sky outside was beginning to lighten. Gray morning filtered through thick trees.I opened my eyes slowly. “Where are we?”“The cabin,” Kellan said.I blinked. Then looked out the window.Cabin was generous. This was a house. A big one. Two stories. Wide porch. Dark wood siding. Surrounded by enough trees that if someone murdered me out here, nobody would hear
Bitten After Midnight Chapter 21: Too Hot
DelaneyI woke up starving. Again.At first, I didn't know where I was. The room was dark, thick with shadow, too dark for most people, probably. Not for me. I could see the worn couch cushions beneath me. The scarred coffee table. The abandoned pretzel bag crumpled beside a half-empty glass. The blanket tangled around my legs like a rope.And Kellan, sitting in the chair across the room. He was asleep. Sort of. His head had fallen back against the cushion, his arms crossed tight over his broad chest, his heavy boots still laced on his feet.I stared at him. He'd stayed. Of course he had.I checked the clock on the wall, its pale face glowing faintly in the gloom. 2:38 a.m.My stomach growled, low and hollow. Kellan's eyes opened immediately. I froze. He looked directly at me, those sharp eyes catching what little light there was."You okay?"Jesus. Did the man ever actually sleep?"I'm hungry."He glanced at the clock. "You ate before you fell asleep.""I know.""You ate a lot."My s
Bitten After Midnight Chapter 20: You’re Not Staying Alone
DelaneyBy the next morning, I felt like absolute shit. Not sick, which would have been easier.There was no sore throat, no cough, no congestion, nothing I could point at and say, There. That’s the problem.Instead, my entire body felt wrong. It was too warm, too sensitive, too aware. The inside of my sweatshirt scratched against my skin even though I’d worn it a dozen times before, and my hair brushing the back of my neck made me want to scream.Every sound in the hallway seemed louder than usual: doors shutting, shoes hitting tile, someone laughing two floors down, a shower running somewhere nearby. My skin felt fuzzy. That was the only word I had for it. Like static lived underneath it, like every nerve ending had been turned up too high.And I was exhausted, completely and miserably exhausted, which made no sense, because I’d slept almost nine hours.I rolled onto my side and pulled the blanket over my head.My stomach growled, loudly, and I closed my eyes. “No.” Another growl. “
Bitten After Midnight Chapter 19: Not Supposed to Know
DelaneyBy the time we got back to the house, I had gone from confused to angry to exhausted and somehow circled all the way back around to angry again.Kellan barely spoke during the drive. That should have been comforting, but it wasn’t. Silence with Kellan usually meant he was thinking, and silence with Kellan after finding out three tubes of my blood were sitting in a campus lab somewhere meant he was planning. I hated that even more.The second we walked inside, everyone was already there.Darian stood near the kitchen island with his phone in one hand, and Rhys was pacing. Jett sat on the edge of the couch, bouncing one knee, while Naomi and Harper sat at the table and Callan leaned against the counter.The kitchen smelled of coffee gone bitter on the burner. Every head turned toward me, and I stopped in the doorway.“Oh, good.” Nobody spoke. “I see we’re having another emergency meeting about my body.”Harper winced.Callan pushed away from the counter. “Delaney.”“No.” I held
Bitten After Midnight Chapter 18: They Took Your Blood?
DelaneyKellan made it to my dorm in under ten minutes. I knew because I checked, twice, and not because I was waiting for him. Obviously.I was standing in the hallway with my arms crossed when he came around the corner, moving fast enough that two girls stepped out of his way without being asked.His eyes found me immediately, then the open dorm room behind me, and his expression changed. It wasn’t dramatic, because Kellan didn’t do dramatic, but his jaw tightened and his shoulders went rigid, and whatever softness usually appeared when he looked at me disappeared.“Are you hurt?”“No.”“Did you see anyone?”“No.”“Did you touch anything?”I blinked. “Hello to you too.”“Delaney.”“I’m fine.”“That wasn’t what I asked.”I sighed. “I touched my own stuff because I didn’t realize someone had broken in until I noticed things were moved.”His mouth flattened. “Okay.”That was all he said. Then he walked past me into the room, and I followed.“You know, normally people ask permission bef
Bitten After Midnight Chapter 17: Bloodwork
DelaneyI almost canceled the appointment.Not because I suddenly thought nothing was wrong with me. Quite the opposite. There was clearly something very fucking wrong with me.But after everything that happened yesterday, sitting in a brightly lit campus health center and explaining that I could hear conversations through walls, see in the dark, heal in under an hour, and apparently blow out windows with my emotions felt like a direct path to a psychiatric evaluation.Still, I went, because seven cryptic assholes refusing to tell me the truth did not qualify as medical care.The nurse called my name at nine fourteen. “Delaney Mercer?”I stood, and she smiled and led me down a hallway that smelled of rubbing alcohol and burnt coffee. “Go ahead and step on the scale.”Easy enough. Then came blood pressure, pulse, and temperature, and she stared at the screen. Then she checked it again, and I noticed.“What?”“Nothing.”I almost laughed. Apparently that word had infected the entire camp
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