Claimed by My Bestie's Alpha Daddy
The heat of his skin bled through the blankets, but mine felt dull and out of sync, as if my nerves were receiving their signals with a delay.
A sound slipped into the quiet. It was faint, metallic, and oddly deliberate, a high, tight tone threading itself through the stillness like a wire being drawn taut. Like bells. My mind tried to rationalize it, to tuck it into the background and dismiss it as harmless, but my body moved on its own. My spine stiffened, my breath slowed to a near stop, and my limbs chilled like the blood had retreated from them entirely.
Three notes sounded, one long, one steady, and one dissonant, and with each one, my head turned, first to the left, then center, then
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