Aria’s POV
The room was dark when I woke up, the kind of pitch-black that made it hard to tell if it was still night or early morning. For a second, I didn’t move, staring up at the ceiling and letting the weight of everything press down on me. My mind was a chaotic storm of questions and fears. Sleep had been a joke, just restless tossing and turning while Selene growled in the back of my head, her anger as loud as my own thoughts.
I swung my legs over the side of the bed, my bare feet brushing the cool floor. Staying in bed wasn’t going to help. I needed air, movement—something to stop my brain from going into overdrive.
Pulling on the oversized sweater that had been left in the closet, I padded into the hallway, half expecting someone to jump out from the shadows. But it was empty, j
