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There comes a time in life when the person is drowning in the deep tunnel of darkness and no matter how much time passes the person doesn't come in contact with the ground and dies. The trauma of those moments was immense because you don't know how much time you have left and just when you hope to die, death won't come either and you just keep falling and falling, and there is no end to it.

His words shuddered her heart and terror rushed in her veins.

She was too stunned to speak. Her eyes were fixed on the floor as she kept recalling the time when she found him writhing in fear and pain while having a nightmare.

She couldn't breathe. It was as if someone had grasped her heart in their vicious clutches and they were squeezing the life out of her.

"B...breath, Aurora." Someone shook her shoulder and she was brought back to reality as her teary red-rimmed eyes met Silvia's hazel spheres which were filled with despair.

"You look pale," Alonso pointed out casually as if he didn't reveal t