I stretched and yawned and reached over to the side of the bad where I’d left her and found it empty. With a frown, I ran my hand over the sheets and found them cool. I wondered if she was somewhere else in the apartment. I stretched again, my joints creaking and cracking from too much past damage. “Aubrey?” I called out, expecting to hear her sweet voice answer back. Nothing. I climbed out of bed reluctantly and wandered around the apartment. She was nowhere to be found. A pit of dread settled in my stomach. She was gone. Not a note, not a word. Just like that she’d walked out of my life. As abruptly as she’d entered my world, she’d disappeared from it. I hated myself for thinking that this was ever going to be something different. I wanted her to stick around. The one woman I actually wanted to stick around and she left without ever giving me a chance to tell her so.
