I woke up. Anxious at the situation before remembering where real life had left off, I looked to the window and saw the dimming blue sky - not yet nighttime, but getting there.
“Damn it," I whispered harshly to myself. The worst sort of nightmare was the sort that began with waking up, making it all feel 'so' real.
There was a chance the nightmare would become a reality in the future. Unless I disappeared from Rowan's life entirely, he would eventually have to find out I had been manipulating him this whole time. It would hurt him.
To the left I found another bed and a bigger room than I had been left in. I had been moved at some point.
Not seeing Rowan anywhere, I went downstairs, irrationally worried he might have somehow actually found out about my role in the Ivory Kingdom's plan.
