{Ryanna’s POV}
I woke up with his name on my lips.
"Casper."
My heart beating fast in my chest, fists gripped into the tangled sheets. I sat up slowly, dragging in a breath that didn’t calm my anxiety.
“What was that?” I asked even though I knew exactly what it was.
In the dream… nightmare, he was reaching for me. Arms stretched, eyes wide and desperate. He was calling me like he used to when he was little and couldn’t sleep through a storm alone.
But this time, I couldn’t reach him. No matter how far I leaned in, he kept slipping away into a fog that reeked of Aurelius.
I was worried about Casper. No amount of acceptance made his interactions with Aurelius any less worrying.
I brushed my hand over my face and pushed back the sheets as morning light twisted through the windows, but
