A pillow slammed into Emerald's face.
"Up!" Nessa snapped. "You've slept in like a corpse!"
Emerald groaned and pulled the blanket over her head, shielding herself from the light streaming into her room from the window. "What time is it?"
"It's almost noon!"
That got her eyes open. Emerald sat up with a jolt, her hair sticking out at odd angles in all directions. "What?!"
"Yeah, shocking, I know. You, the one who barely blinks past 6 a.m., is snoring into her pillow at lunchtime. I mean, as Alpha of the Midnight Fang… you deserve applause."
"Crap!" Emerald scrambled out of bed, nearly tripping on the edge of the duvet as she darted for the bathroom. "Give me ten minutes!"
Nessa leaned against the door frame. "Why the rush? You obviously had no trouble snoring your way through the morning."
"I wasn't snoring," Emerald called out through the door. Water splashed as the shower turned on. "And you wouldn't understand."
"Try me."
