Aries' POV
I didn’t move. I couldn’t move.
Her voice echoed in my head like a ghost across the shattered pieces of my world—faint, fragile, but real.
“Hey.”
One word. That was all it took for my breath to hitch, for my heart to stutter like it was relearning how to beat.
For a moment, I thought it was grief playing cruel tricks. That my desperation had finally cracked me open. That I’d imagined it, conjured her voice in my head like a hallucination. That my refusal to let go had become delusion.
But then I saw them.
Her eyes. Those storm-filled, soul-cutting eyes fluttered open. Slow. Hesitant. But unmistakably hers.
It was real. Like a whisper peeling through layers of silence.
“Rex…?” I choked out, unsure if I even dared believe it.
Her lips moved again. Slower this time, but t
