CHAPTER 307

ARIA’S POV

“I feel like I am in jail serving a sentence for someone saving my life.”

The distance between us is unbearable, a chasm that seems to grow wider with each passing day. Ever since that confrontation, where her words were sharp and her tone laced with a finality that left no room for argument, it’s as if a shadow has settled over our home.

Aria’s presence feels like that of a ghost, a silent figure moving through the house, slipping away before I can even catch a glimpse of her. Every time I hear her footsteps in the hallway or catch a whiff of her perfume lingering in the air, it feels like she’s slowly fading out of my life, and the fear of losing her for good gnaws at me constantly.

She no longer eats dinner with me. I sit alone at the table, the silence suffocating, the emptiness of her absence more glaring with every meal. She’s always out. It’s as if she’s deliberately keeping herself away from me, creating a distance that I don’t know how to bridge.

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