De Pro-Techie
Well-rounded Techie
Alpha Twins' Forbidden Obsession Novel Synopsis
I lay on my bed-though to call it a bed was generous. It was little more than a worn blanket spread over the floor beneath the staircase.A chill seeped into my bones, and I curled tightly into myself.
I didn't dare stretch out; the slanted wall was too close, and I'd learned the hard way about sudden movements in the night.
My small refuge was tucked under the stairs, a cramped space that reminded me of Harry Potter, though there was no magic here.
Only the constant, dusty smell of old wood and loneliness.
Sleep wouldn't come. Tomorrow, we were moving. My mother, Alice, had decided there was work in Texas, another chance to start over in a new town.
My mind drifted back to my life in Oklahoma. It hadn't been rich, but it had been warmed by sunlight and my grandmother's love. I could almost feel the humid air on my skin, see the kind wrinkles around my grandmother's eyes when she smiled.
After Grandma passed, I became an unwanted relic. My father had vanished before I could form a memory of him, and my mother had seemed more like a distant relative than a parent.
It took a court order to officially place me in Alice's custody, making her my legal guardian.
So now I had a roof, of sorts. But Alice and I were strangers bound only by blood and a piece of paper.
I squeezed my eyes shut, forcing my breathing to slow.
"Just sleep. Get through tomorrow. Get through until you're eighteen. Then you can leave."
The mantra was a familiar lullaby.
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