Chapter 175

• Anna laid in her old bed and felt a strange piece of her missing. She expected to feel as if she was right where she belonged, as if she was home—but she didn’t feel that way at all. The bed was stiff under her back and she might as well have been laying in the dirt with how it made her feel. She rolled on her side and saw nothing but the bare walls and it hit her then—
• She missed Lucas.
• The thoughts weren’t welcome and she wanted to banish them from her mind, but they just kept sneaking back in. She missed his warmth and the safeness she felt in his grasp—it was like no other. His arms wrapped around her body in her mind and she closed her eyes tightly to imagine it all. It was the only way she could lure her exhausted body into sleep, if only for a few hours of blissful nothingness.