Leon
Present Timeline – December 2025
Aurora.
The name slipped out of me again before I could stop it. My voice was low and torn straight out of the place in my chest that had been aching for a full year.
My eyes narrowed at the sight of her standing there, her eyes wide open and frozen, her breath trembling as if seeing me had shaken the ground beneath her feet.
But it wasn’t her shock that hit me the hardest. It was the small weight against my chest.
I felt it before I saw it—the tiny pull on my shirt, the soft fingers curling into the fabric as if holding onto me was the most natural thing in the world.
I looked down slowly and met a pair of crystal blue eyes staring up at me. Blue eyes that mirrored mine.
My heart stopped, and for a moment, I couldn’t move. I just stared
