Excerpt: Chapter 5, Justified, a Madison Knight Novel Madison’s eyes felt like they had been welded shut by the sandman . She heard a faint banging, which at first she was able to convince herself was conjured by her sub-conscious and part of a REM cycle, but unfortunately it was persistent. What time was it anyhow? She managed to read the clock through foggy slits. Seven a.m. The knocking intensified. Her visitor wasn’t going to leave. Her initial reaction was to throw something hard at the wall and protest the awakening, but she didn’t have enough energy for that. “What!” She yelled loud, certain her neighbors would bang on the wall to protest the noise. The walls were paper thin in this place, and normally it didn’t take much for them to pound on the wall and scream obscenities to quiet her. Maybe they had drunk their Christmas cheer and passed out unconscious to the world. Or possibly, they had taken her last warning seriously, when at one in the morning sh