#Chapter 338: Mistakes at Midnight

Nathan I lay in bed that night, staring at the ceiling, the quiet of the night broken only by Olivia’s gentle snores next to me. I glanced at her, her face so peaceful in sleep. It was hard to reconcile this gentle image of her with the heated argument we’d had earlier, the tension of our recent therapy session heavy between us. All I wanted was to make her realize that these cookie-cutter ‘exercises’ that the therapist gave us, these catch-all solutions, wouldn’t work for us. Not when it came to our struggles. It was more than just a disagreement or a difference in opinion that had led us to this point. It was a literal life or death situation, a battle against something dark, evil, and very, very old. The room suddenly felt stifling, the walls closing in on me, each tick of the clock mocking my restlessness. Realizing that sleep was not going to be my friend tonight, I sighed and swung my legs over the side of the bed, careful not to wake Olivia. I padded through th