I woke slowly, the remnants of sleep still clinging to me, only to find Theo already awake, his gaze fixed entirely on me.For a moment, I didn't move. I just lay there, caught between sleep and awareness, trying to make sense of what I was seeing. We weren't on the sofa anymore. Sometime during the night, I had been moved. Now I was in bed, my bare body half-hidden beneath a crumpled white sheet that barely covered me.I blinked once. Then again. This had to be a dream right? Was I really seeing him like this, so close, so real, watching me as if I were something fragile, something worth memorizing? Or was my mind simply replaying what it wanted to believe? Because last night...A flicker of memory stirred, warmth, closeness, the way everything between us had unraveled so quickly, so completely. But it felt hazy now, like something imagined rather than lived.If it had been real, then why was I here? We had been in the living room, on the sofa. Did he carry me here?The thought sent a
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