Jasper immediately took to his heels.

Ariana was confused. What was wrong with him? Did Theodore wake up?

She quickly turned around, but she didn’t notice anything odd. Theodore was still lying on the bed, and his breath was as steady and quiet as before.

The only difference was that one of his hands was out of the quilt.

Ariana tilted her head and studied the hand for a while. It looked limp, so she felt that it probably fell out when she bumped into the bedframe while trying to dodge Jasper.

“Theodore?” Ariana called tentatively.

There was no response.

and called out more firmly, “Hey,

got

hand and put it back under the quilt. Theodore still didn’t move a muscle during the process. This eased her mind greatly. It turned out he was still in

Jasper had hallucinated in his

she breathed a sigh

again. Ariana’s heart was still beating fast. For some unknown reason, she feared that Theodore would suddenly open his eyes. She sat on the edge of the bed and stared at him

head to look at Theodore. To her relief,

really seen Theodore move last night. It appeared the drunk man was

fell on a red mark on her neck. It wasn’t there before. It looked like someone had pinched her there

struggle with Jasper last night, she reasoned

surged inside her at the

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