Chapter 109 Caelum

• Feeling Aria by my side is like finally breathing after being submerged for too long. The lightness that floods my chest is intoxicating, a happiness so complete it almost hurts. Every smile she gives me, every touch of her fingers on my skin, reaffirms what I’ve always known: she’s mine, as she was meant to be from the start, as if the universe had corrected a grotesque mistake.
• Sitting on the couch, I watch her pick up the dress tossed across the room, a remnant of the passion that consumed us moments ago. She moves quickly, but there’s a grace in her movements that hypnotizes me. The soft light outside, filtered through the hotel windows, illuminates her brown hair in an almost ethereal glow.
• “I need to get back to the children; they must be worried,” she says, her urgency catching me off guard, though her tone remains soft, almost apologetic for having to leave.