Chapter 17
Payton kicked the blanket off her legs in anger. She wasn’t upset with the fabric. Far from it. It was the fact she’d been tossing and turning for hours. She was frustrated. The clock read three o’clock. She’d gotten an hour of sleep and felt wide awake after that. Payton couldn’t remember the last time she’d slept more than three or four hours straight. Her brain just refused to sleep longer than that. It just needed a little bit of time to reboot then it was ready to go even if her body felt like it had been run over by a city bus.
Would it kill her mind if she could just sleep a little longer. She could feel the aches and pains from her fight more acutely now. Her ribs and cheek had taken the brunt of the damage. That wasn’t helping lull her to sleep. At least nothing was b
