I was in a semi-asleep state as I manoeuvred in bed, instinctively pulling Mei closer to me, but my eyes snap open when instead of feeling pleasurable jolts of electricity or her soft locks tickling my nose, instead I get a face full of her pillow.
“Mei?” I call out as I slowly sit up, now fully awake and alert.
“What’s going on?” Axel yawns and stretches in my mind.
I walk over to the bathroom and peek my head in, but nothing. I start sniffing the air and catch her scent, but it’s faded, which means she’s been gone for a while. Dread crashes over me like an avalanche and I start hyperventilating. She can’t be gone, not again. I can’t lose her again! If someone has taken her I swear to the Gods I will unleash hell.
“She wouldn’t just leave on her own, would she? That’s not like her,”
