Chapter 14

RAE

Son of a—

I knew where I was before I even opened my eyes. The cool breeze on my skin and the hard, cold ground under my body woke me up. I felt grimier than usual, all sticky and wet. I didn’t want to imagine what I could have fallen into while sleepwalking. There were a lot of rubbish heaps between my apartment and the park.

I took a second to appreciate that I was finally over that nasty hangover before slowly opening my eyes and looking up at the starry sky. Maybe I was supposed to die here. Something in my subconscious led me here several nights every month because I was meant to be mauled by wolves or whatever that thing was.

Not for the first time, I wondered if I should have died in the accident. I had cheated death, so it had finally come back for me. No one else had this much bad luck.

I sighed and pushed myself to sit and look around. This wasn’t my usual path. Everything was dark and blurry, but I could tell there were more trees around me than usual. The moon was no l