Chapter 140FreyaThe first thing I felt was pain.It sat behind my eyes like an axe someone had buried in my skull and then wandered off, forgetting to pull it back out. Every heartbeat shoved another pulse of it through my temples, and I groaned into the pillow without meaning to."What the…"Even my own voice came out wrong, cracked and unfamiliar, like it belonged to someone else.My mouth tasted like something had crawled in and died there. My throat was raw, and my stomach gave a lurch so violent that I barely got the blankets off before I was stumbling for the bathroom.I didn't make it to the sink.My knees cracked against the cold tile just as everything I'd eaten the day before came rushing back up, and it kept coming until my eyes streamed and my ribs ached from the effort of it. When it finally stopped, I slumped there with my forehead pressed to the cool edge of the tub, dragging in these thin, shaky little breaths."I am never," I mumbled, "drinking again."Another wave
Read more