Chapter 27

I lied in bed, staring at the canopy above me. I'd hardly been able to get even a few minutes of sleep. My thoughts kept me awake through the night as my mind ran rampant with everything that had happened yesterday. It was weird, scary and unnerving and yet even those words seemed lacking in depth, in intensity, as to how I was really feeling. It wasn't the first time for me to go through an identity crisis but I thought I'd long since crossed that bridge and left those troubles behind years ago. But the past has a way of catching up to you. I was an Origin. Well, there goes my theory of me becoming a superhuman. I totally jinxed myself there. I rolled over, burying my face in the pillows with a groan. My life always had a knack for getting more complicated than it had to be. "Are you okay, Elizabeth?" Ezra's anxious voice greeted me from outside the doors, a reminder that he'd been there all night to guard me. Where was my actual bodyguard anyway? I needed to find Garrett