Stay Awake Book Novels & Stories

I went to my bedroom with my heart thumping fast inside my chest and sat down on my bed. "You have to wake up Dolly," I said out loud. "He doesn't see you that way. He will never see you that way." It takes me more than usual to fall asleep, I mean, I have been in bed for more than two hours, and my brain refuses to let go. I've tried everything, even reading a boring book, but it is just as hard. I can't stop, I can't pause my brain, and the thought of Mr. Westbrook is too strong.

It’s their way of life. It was 6:50AM and it was definitely not the time to wake up on a chilled January holiday morning! It was just about an hour that I had slept, staying up all night, tossing and turning in the bed to find an answer to Nisim’s unsettling question whether I would write even if I didn’t get the Booker, even if I didn’t make money from writing, even if nobody appreciated my stories. It was Deuta who startled me from the precious state of slumber unhindered by The Phenomenon.

"Some things are better left unconfirmed, Miss Claire." I let it go. I file the confirmation away and I let it go. That night, I lie in bed with my textbooks scattered around me, trying to study. I've been reading the same page for twenty minutes, the words blurring into meaningless shapes, and I know it's useless. My body is exhausted, dragging me toward sleep with every blink, but my mind is wired, alert, waiting. I make a decision. I'm not going to sleep through it this time. I'm going to stay awake and see what the night brings.

Chapter 7: Cease and Desist I was dressed and ready to leave by 7:15, the meeting with Dana wasn’t until eight, but I’d been awake since five, sitting by the window and watching the city wake up as if nothing in my life had just fallen apart. Sleep felt like a luxury other people still had access to,I wasn’t one of them anymore, maybe I would be again one day, but just not yet. I did one last check before leaving while the guest list remained safely folded and pressed against my ribs, my phone was fully charged, and the small notebook where I’d started tracking everything was tucked well inside my coat.

"You hated it?" "No." "You loved it?" "No." "That narrows it down." Walter looked down at the book. His thumb brushed the edge of the cover. A tiny movement. Easy to miss. "I finished it." Lois stared. "Already?" "It wasn't very long." "It was four hundred pages." Silence. The silence answered for him. Her eyes widened. "You stayed up reading." "No." "You absolutely stayed up reading." "I had insomnia." "Convenient." For the briefest moment, Walter looked almost embarrassed.

Ava's POV I shifted in the bed but I couldn't feel my husband's warm body close to mine. Perhaps he went down to drink something to help him sleep well. He often had insomnia. I walked down the stairs to get some milk, I felt a bit uneasy and my wolf has been restless for some time now. I had gone for a run and tried so many things to calm her down, but they didn’t work. Sage was sitting on the stool in the kitchen, drinking some milk.

William and Austyn had no trouble sleeping in and instead of trying to have a repeat of last night, I stayed on the pull out couch and read my book, ignoring the two snoring beasts behind me, and with a sigh I looked up every so often just to see the snow hadn't stopped.

Embarrassed and restless, sleep was elusive. Given that Heath had chosen this book for her, Aurora wished she could speed-read through it immediately.

“I need to stay as close to Alpha Aiden as possible just in case he wakes up and needs my ethical help“ I tried to convince myself. *Yawn Yawn Yawn* The book I’m reading is so boring ,filled with histories that I get really sleepy when I’m just on the 3rd page. ***** “This teddy bear is so big and warm” I whispered, wrapping my arms around the big teddy bear on my bed. “First you named a rabbit after me and now you are calling me a teddy bear …I wonder what next will come out of those lips of yours' ' came a husky sleepy deep voice.