CHAPTER 52

morning after

Pov: Winston

I woke up late the next morning, a little confused for a moment.

My eyes opened and I felt different.

I looked around, carefully.

I had woken up in a bed that wasn't mine and in a room I didn't recognize, dressed in clothes that weren't mine and a woman's hand was around me. Her body flushed close to mine, our sleeping bodies entangled into each other.

And it all came coming back.

Maddie had wanted me to get close to Alice and with the sob stories and half truths I had fed her yesterday, it was easy for her to open up to me and fool her into thinking we were making an emotional connection, when really I had just wanted Maddie to stop screaming in my ear and hovering over me like a haunting surprise.

But I would be lying if I said that ALL parts of last night was an act... In fact, I struggled to remember if I was leading her on or if I was leading myself on.

I had shared with her certain parts of me that I had only shared with people I cared about, although,