Ch. 57

CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN:

~Avery:

I tossed and turned for a while. Something just felt… off. But I couldn’t name what it was until I finally realized something was missing. Or I guess, someone was missing. My first thought was that he was in the bathroom.

It was still dark out, and he said he wasn’t going to be separated from me again… so he couldn’t be anywhere else, right? A pit at the bottom of my heart shook. Something felt wrong, like I wanted to believe that but knew it wasn’t true.

I waited, my eyes adjusting, and then it hit like a freight train. He wasn’t here.

I flung the sheets off me and bolted to the front door.

Outside. He had to be outside. Running, checking the perimeter like at the cabin right? My hands shook as I walked out into the cool night air. I tried scanning the area for auras but couldn’t make anything else. The familiar need to hold onto my magic gnawed at me, making the lack of magic even more stark.

“Drake?” I halfheartedly whispered.

“Uh,” a voice cam