Chapter 57

Sienna

The early morning light filtered through the large windows, soft and golden, dancing along the edges of the room. For a brief second, I forgot where I was.

This wasn’t my childhood bedroom. It wasn’t the Infirmary either.

This was his room.

It was the room that he suddenly chose to want me to stay in with him. His bedroom. The one place that I wouldn’t have expected myself to be in.

His sheets. His walls. His scent clinging to the air like smoke.

I turned slowly, expecting to find him lying beside me.

I had hoped that he would go to sleep despite me being here, despite not wanting to see him. At least knowing that he got a little rest would give me the ease of falling asleep here. A mistake that I made unintentionally, it was the exhaustion that took over me that had me falling asleep.

But the bed was empty.

Untouched.

The sheets on his side hadn’t been disturbed, not a crease, not a wrinkle. I sat up, the sof