ASHTON
"I love you."
Amanda giggles, soft and sweet, and I curse under my breath because how the f**k is she so cute and lovely at the same time? It isn’t fair. It isn’t f*****g fair.
I reach for her—instinct, need, the kind of hunger that doesn’t fade even when she’s already in my arms.
But something’s wrong.
My hand closes around nothing.
No.
I try again, fingers searching, desperate, clawing through the sheets? f**k. I overslept! My eyes adjusted to the sun hitting where we slept last night when I realized that she’s gone.
“Amanda?” I called, kinda panicking. My body is still healing from what Theodus did to me. “ Amanda? Where are you?”
I sit up too fast, the wound in my side splitting, blood soaking hot and sticky into my skin, but I don’t care. I can’t care.
She’s not
