#Chapter 16: A Diversion In the Road

Aurora POV The world feels hazy, blurred at the edges like I’m trapped in some kind of dream I can’t quite wake up from. Nothing makes sense, nor does anything feel real. I’m floating with no real bounds to touch, just an endless void that seems to stretch on for miles all around me. There are disembodied words whispered close to me—ones I can’t exactly make out no matter how hard I try to concentrate on them. Something touches my arm, a barely there caress that doesn’t feel friendly at all. Another touches my leg, working up to my inner thigh. A disgusted pit forms in my stomach, then, curling tight enough to make me sick. Looking down at myself though, I see nothing. What is happening? “Theo.” The name is growled through teeth, anger woven through the syllables. “What do you think you’re doing.” That voice sounds familiar. My body is heavy, sluggish, but then… my mind—my mind remembers. Theo. His watchful eyes as I’d left to go back to my room. Drinking that g