Chapter 113

Aurora’s POV

We went shopping and I saw the man from my dreams.

He was there, on the other side of the street, staring straight at me, and if I hadn't known better I might have thought he was going to walk over to say hello. Then that truck drove past us in the middle of nowhere and he was gone.

A gust of wind blew his way and I shivered, even though it wasn’t particularly chilly out. It felt as if I was standing on a precipice looking down at a bottomless pit, and no amount of willpower or will could keep me from falling off. There was nothing here for me except my own thoughts and memories. He had been there, and now he wasn’t, and it had all happened before I could even get started.

The sound of the front door opening brought me back to earth. “Hey! Are you ready yet?” Alexis’s voice echoed around me but only made it worse somehow because I knew exactly what kind of energy he had to bring with him into a room like this.

He came into view, his arms filled with plastic bags, and lo