1 year later…
“Is this really necessary?” Anna sighed as she reached for the blindfold that William had tightened around her eyes. She had grown so used to waking up to him watching her with a smile every morning that when she woke up in an empty bed that day, she knew something was off.
At first, she thought something had happened to him—he had been acting strangely in the past few days, so she thought that maybe the voices had returned and he was trying to hide it from her. He had insisted that he hadn’t heard them in the past year and he hadn’t touched his darkness in just as long either, but a part of her was afraid to believe him and be wrong.
The strangest thing of all was the waves of excitement and joy that kept coming from him now and then. She could feel he was happy just bein
