7Sugar woke up hugging the pillow now lying on top of her but outside of the covers. She was naked and spread-eagle in the very middle of what she knew had to be Axel’s bed. Despite his cool reception to her at the Psych Central office, he’d seen to it that her body ended up in his bed even though he hadn’t bothered to spend the night with her. She could tell because his pillow didn’t have any indentations and there were no signs of fresh DNA on his side.
Rolling her head to rid herself of her strange thoughts, she spied the abandoned pile of her clothes on the floor where the artifact had shed everything covering her nakedness without her knowledge. It was an action it always took during her recovery which resembled a bear’s hibernation far more than human sleep.
Her face flushed now re
