Cyber 21

Iris

The bed next to me was empty when I opened my eyes. My hand skimmed under the messed-up sheets. They were cold. No one had been sleeping next to me for a few hours at least. Panic gripped me.

I knew Cyber had crawled into bed next to me before the sun had come up. I had felt his heavy arm over me, the safe feeling I got in his arms making me drift back off to sleep almost instantly. And now they were both gone.

Violet was gone.

Had someone taken her again? Had I fallen asleep so soundly and so deeply that someone had been able to take her sleeping form from my arms?

Sitting upright so quickly that my vision blurred, I gagged.

“Easy baby.” Cyber was suddenly there, his big hands pushing my shoulders back down into the mattress. “What just happened?” His eyes searched my face; worry made the skin around his full lips tight. “You looked like you were going to pass out.”

Staring up at him, I tried to form words around the lump of panic in my throat.

As if he read my mind, Cyber l