The Counter Bet

KELLAN’S POV

The first thing I felt when consciousness clawed me back was wrongness. It was like something had happened that wasn't meant to.

Cold. Heavy. Sharp.

Not the kind drifting from the air conditioner or the apartment’s usual morning chill, no, this cold lived in the room. In the space between me and someone standing too still.

Someone who wasn’t supposed to be home by now. How long did I