Chapter 0019

GINEVRA

The morning after a cloud of darkness was dreadful.

The brightness of the morning, which I loathed the most, was striking my eyes with such viciousness when my body jerked awake from yet another nightmare.

These days, it was Julia who taunted me the most. Memories of her, her voice, the softness of her—she was all over the place.

When I woke up, it was Julia.

When I slept, it was Julia.

Even in my sleep, Julia tormented my dreams.

It was unnerving.

I had begun going crazy with anxiousness. So crazy that I developed profound hatred for the break of dawn.

Since the sun rose this morning, I had been in bed. My eyes wide against the gray ceiling, my head ringing with numbers, desperate to calm my raging nerves.

At intervals, sleep had seized me, and I had succumbed to the call of nature. And yet, I couldn’t last longer than five minutes in my sleep.

My body was sore all over—too sore that it had become impossible moving my limbs.