Ethan
I couldn’t take my eyes off Rose. Time felt irrelevant, minutes stretched into what could have been hours. The rhythmic beeping of the machines and her shallow breaths were the only signs of life. Her once-vibrant skin looked ashen, and her body, so still now, carried the weight of something unknown, something dangerous. The confusion, the fear, it all swirled around me, suffocating me as I waited for answers that I feared might never come.
The door creaked open, and Nathaniel stepped in, still dressed in his wedding suit, though he’d ditched the jacket. His disheveled appearance mirrored the chaos that had erupted in our lives. His usually playful demeanor was absent, replaced with something somber.
“We can’t find Amber anywhere,” Nathaniel said, his voice low, burdened with a se
