Chapter 43 Life with you a new prospective

Skala, Greece 1566

Light streamed in from the small window beside the bed. The scent of herbal tea and sweet rolls wafted through the room along with the muffled sounds of the bustling bar below the rooms of the inn. Jos's hand automatically searched the mattress beside her as she had every morning for the past several weeks. Her eyes fluttered open when her hand only met with the cool fabric of the bed and not the hard, warm ridges of the body that was usually beside her. She lifted up in the bed to searched the room, but he was no where to be found. Panic caused her chest to tighten. {Alone... I'm alone...}