°•♡Chapter 153

emptiness. A hollow ache where warmth should have been.

Aria was still there, but not really. Her body lay breathing, her chest rising and falling, but her soul… her soul was drifting somewhere I couldn’t follow without force easily.

I sat up slowly, rubbing my face with both hands. I hated the way my heart clenched when I thought of her trapped alone in that black void. I had expected to find her weak, yes, but not like this.

She was fading away. Losing herself. Her memories. Piece by piece.

She didn’t even remember me fully to begin with. Not our lives. Not the bond we had spent centuries carrying.

It was cruel enough that she hadn’t recalled any of that before being dragged into the void, but now—now it threatened to erase even the fragments of me which she had learnt in the few months since my return.

I wasn't sure I could handle being a total stranger to her again.

I pressed my hand over my chest, trying to steady the unease rising there.

If I had to keep going