Chapter 10
REID
I woke with a jolt.
For a few moments, I struggled to remember where I was. The past couple of weeks had been disorientating, and I hadn’t slept in this room in a long time.
Looking around, it was as if hundreds of memories patchworked themselves together with my present reality. Allara’s quilt spread across the bed, all her old posters covered the walls... it brought me back to a different time.
On the pinboard above the dresser was a postcard from the day we’d spent together at Gold Beach. Just in front of it was the stuffed bear I’d won for her at the carnival when we were sixteen.
The real woman snuggled closer into my chest, forcing me out of my recollections. Even in sleep, she held me close, like she was worried I would disappear.
I stroked her dark tresses ou
