Chapter 106 Blackmail

***Hazel***

I wake slowly, the kind of slow, heavy return to consciousness that comes after sleeping too hard.

For a moment, I don’t know where I am.

The sheets are warm around me, tangled from where I must have moved in my sleep.

Then I hear Gideon’s voice. Sharp. Angry.

“…this is complete bullshit.”

My eyes open fully.

Gideon is standing near the far side of the room, pacing slowly with his phon