#Chapter 160 – The Hangover

Helen’s POV I jerked awake, drenched in sweat and heaving for breath. Not that I liked being tortured in the moment, but somehow waiting for pain to arrive was almost worse. I wish you’d just gone back to bloodying me up during my dreams, I thought. I had to find the Huntsman, and I had to stop him. I looked at the clock. It was only 5:00 a.m. I hadn’t been asleep for very long. I was going to have to find a way to get some sleep for real. Surely there had to be a way to keep him out of my head and out of my dreams. Wait. Maybe that idea held something. The Huntsman couldn’t get into my dreams if I didn’t dream. I would just have to find a way to induce dreamless sleep. And then, perhaps, I could get some rest in peace. The only thing I had in the house that I knew would work was alcohol. I went down to the kitchen, and I found a bottle of hard liquor. It was going to take something stronger than wine to knock me out and keep me asleep without dreaming. Pouring myself