Chapter 13. Open and Honest.

Talia woke with a start. She fumbled around to look at her alarm clock, the numbers shining too brightly in her half wakeful state.It was 06:15. There was no point in trying to get back to sleep now. 

She lay for a few minutes, staring up at her ceiling. There was a small spider in the far corner. Talia focused on it while thinking about yesterdays events which seemed all but a dream now. Trying not to think about her meeting with Brodie later was proving harder than she anticipated, his face constantly weaving through her ponderings. The butterflies in her stomach returned with a vengeance at the slightest thought.

Talia mentally shook herself and with a low growl, kicked off her blankets before making her way through to her bathroom. She made up for the quick shower the night before by staying under the cascading water until she felt the temperature change.

Grabbing a towel off the heated rack and wrapping herself in it's warmth, she padded back to her