Chapter 48

Cassie was awakened by the sound of the alarm that she had set on her phone the previous night. She tried to get up from bed only to discover that she couldn’t even feel most of the right side of her body. The little rays of sunlight that were able to penetrate through the thick, dark curtains barely illuminated the room but even still, Cassie was able to tell that she couldn’t feel the right side of her face because Aaron was lying on her arm. Slowly, she inched her way out from underneath him, pausing every time he stirred. Once she was free, she grabbed her phone, snuck out of her room and shut the door behind her.

After Felix had driven her home the previous night, she had made herself and Aaron bowls of ramen as they although they had both been tired to the bone and sleepy as hell, they were even more hungry as Aaron’s last meal had been lunch and Cassie’s was breakfast. Snowflake, who had never been left alone by herself for that long, was ecstatic to see them and yipped excited