Allison's POV

Sleep came better after knowing all this was going to end the next morning, and it took the sun reflecting heavily into the room through the glass walls to wake me.

I stirred up from the bed, my mouth widened to a little O as I yawned, stretching up. I strolled over the golden squares cast on the floor by the sunlight, brightening the room alongside the fluorescent bulbs in the ceiling, and I headed to the bathroom.

Once the cold water from the shower touched my body, my body ...