Book 2 - Ch. 139: Shower Time

I wake up with a hellacious headache, almost as if I had gone out drinking last night, but I don’t remember drinking anything other than water. It’s what I usually drink when we go to the club or play. When I try thinking back to last night, everything is fuzzy, and it only makes my head hurt more. I groan and turn to my side towards Jace’s side of the bed, but he isn’t there. Frowning, I take a glance around the room but it’s empty and it’s still really early.

Just as I try to get out of the bed, the door opens and Jace comes in with a bottle of water and the container of pain reliever, “Oh, my God, you are my hero!”

He chuckles and sits on the edge of the bed, handing me the pills and opening my water for me before handing it to me, “I take it you don’t feel the best. I wondered, and so I got up and grabbed these, so when you woke up, you would have them. I wasn’t expecting you to wake up so soon.”

“Why do I feel like I’ve been hit by an eighteen-wheeler?” I groan once more becaus