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Sweet Dreams

Author: Ethel
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-03 18:18:13

Elle

I can't sleep.

I glance over at the alarm clock sitting on the nightstand and an annoyed sound leaves my throat.

3:30 am

Jesus fucking Christ.

I've been up for two hours.

Apparently, the rest I'd got the first day I arrived at Aaron's mansion was only meant for that one single day alone. Ever since the second, to say sleep has eluded me would be putting it lightly. I was tired most days, and when I wasn't dragging Aaron through a store or having him put a ring on my finger, I was trying—and failing, might I add, to get some sleep.

Groaning, I roll over on my side and close my eyes. I squeeze my lids together, desperately waiting and waiting for the familiar heaviness I craved to sleep through. But I'm met with nothing but darkness.

Ugh. This is hopeless.

Flopping on my back I let out a long breath. I woke up from a dream I would've preferred not to have in the first place. My mother had watched me leave the house after breakfast. It was the day she told me that her new boyfrien
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