Good Girl Gone Bad
It was a distant dream, stolen by my own ragged breaths.
Finally, I gave up. Throwing off the covers, I slipped out of bed, the cool floorboards biting at my bare feet.
Maybe a glass of milk would soothe the storm inside me, dull the edges of this insomnia. Or water, something simple, mundane, to ground me in reality.
I padded downstairs in my nightshirt. The mansion felt alive tonight, its walls pulsing with unspoken secrets, the air thick with the scent of vanilla and lingering cologne.
Zeus's cologne, inescapable.