Playing the Part

Vivienne’s POV

I woke up with a dramatic gasp, like I was emerging from a coma or had just remembered I left the oven on in 2019. For one disoriented moment, I couldn’t tell if I was in a spa, a funeral home, or an extremely quiet war zone. Then I remembered the reason I’d set the alarm that woke me up in the first place.

My mother was here to spend the night.

I sat up, groaning like an old hous