Chapter Fifty One
A groan, heavy breathing, followed by yet another groan and more sounds that I cannot quite comprehend as my eyes flutter open.
I do not know what to make of what I'm hearing, but it sounds like someone is in agony. And I do not even know what is happening because I am still disoriented from the fact that I have just woken up from my sleep. I immediately feel the difference between when I went to bed and now that I'm waking up because he is not there.
The space that he once occupied so close to me in this tiny bed which I had strategically chosen so he would not be sleeping next to me, and yet it worked against me, is now empty. That space is left with nothing but the cold sheets. And I hate that I find myself missing him. Missing how well he embraced me and put me
