Chapter 92. Sleep Walker

Aurora’s POV

The suffocating darkness clung to me like a second skin as I bolted upright, gasping, and my lungs struggling against the thick air. Cold sweat slicked my forehead, and I pressed a trembling hand to my chest, trying to steady my breaths. But nothing helped.

The darkness was all around me, pressing down like a suffocating blanket.

“Caleb!” I called out, my voice cracking, the sound faint and swallowed by the abyss. Panic clawed at me.

“Caroline! Where are you?” My voice, though desperate, seemed to vanish the second it left my lips, devoured by the void.

I staggered to my feet, my bare toes brushing against what felt like jagged stone. Every direction was the same—black, infinite, and oppressively silent. I reached out blindly, my hands groping for something, anything, to ground me. My heart pounded wildly in my chest.

“Caleb, if you can hear me, say something!” I shouted again, louder this time, but the silence pressed back, mo