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Lily's POV

Sleep finally found me after the call. However, it was a troubling one.

I struggled to shake off the unsettling dreams of Aiden that haunted my sleep, but it was as hard as finding sleep in the forest place. His familiar face slipped in and out of the fabric of my dreams, as though taunting me with things I would never have again.

Things I feared I'd lost forever.

Suddenly, the sound of raised voices from downstairs jolted me awake. At first, I lay still, trying to discern if it was merely a product of my restless mind or a real occurrence. But as the voices persisted, growing louder and more agitated, I couldn't ignore them any longer.

With a sense of unease creeping over me, I sat up in bed, straining to catch every word that drifted up from the lower floors of the house.

"Get out!" Mira's voice which was usually calm and composed, now dripped with a venomous edge. "We don't want you here."

My heart skipped two beats. Was that Aiden?

However, the words that followed from