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.

forward and called out more

she got no

swallowed hard and slowly walked to the bedside. She carefully took hold of his hand and put it back under the quilt. Theodore still didn’t move a muscle

Jasper had hallucinated

chest as she breathed a sigh of

its usual quietness 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

turned her head to look at Theodore. To her relief, he didn’t seem to have moved an inch the whole

seen Theodore move last night. It appeared the

While she was brushing her teeth, her eyes fell on a red mark on her neck. It wasn’t there before. It looked like someone

struggle with Jasper last night, she reasoned that the red

her at the thought of

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