Chapter 88. Comfort

Rex POV

Calmness, peace, belonging, all the things I once assumed, believed to be illusions were the same feelings that embraced me right now. I slept too well for someone who had fought and ended a war, and someone who had lost a friend. But I guess I couldn’t stop the universe from granting me the well-deserved rest it craved.

My dreams were empty for once, but even that space wrapped me in familiar warmth, one I didn’t want to let go of. I was scared… scared that I would come back to reality and it wouldn’t be as peaceful as this empty sanctuary felt. But after one glance at a hollow image that looked eerily similar to my mother, Lyra, my eyes snapped open at once.

Reality didn’t hit me as hard as I thought it would. Probably because of the man who still lay fast asleep beside me. Aries looked so peaceful, his face slightly scrunched up. But e