Leon
December 24, 2024
I woke up to the pale morning light slipping through the hotel curtains. It was warm and soft across my face. Instinctively, my hand reached out to the side where her body should have been, where she had slept curled into me as she belonged there, but my fingers touched only cold, empty sheets.
My eyes snapped open immediately, and Aurora wasn’t there. For a second, I didn’t move. I just stared at the indentation on the mattress where her head had rested only hours ago.
My heartbeat picked up as confusion settled heavily on my chest. Then I sat up fast, scanning the room. She wasn’t in the bathroom, her belongings were nowhere to be found, and one of her scents drifted through the air the way it had last night when I held her against me.
She was… gone.
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