NATHAN’S POV
I knew before I opened my eyes, It wasn’t a sound that woke me. Not a shift in the house. Not even the bond. It was something deeper. Absence…The kind your body notices before your mind does. The kind that pulls you out of sleep like something has been taken from you.My eyes opened slowly at first, my body still caught between sleep and awareness, but the feeling didn’t fade. It sharpened.
Wrong.
My hand moved instinctively across the bed beside me. Cold. Empty. My entire body went still.
“Elodie.”
Her name left my lips before I could stop it, low and rough, like it didn’t belong to me yet…No response. I pushed myself up immediately, the last traces of sleep gone in an instant as my eyes scanned the room. Nothing. The door was closed, The windows untouched.
The air was t
