[Music recommendation: No clear mind - When you're not here]
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"Evelyn," he said in a low and rough voice, as though it had scraped its way out of his chest. The world seemed to narrow to the space between them, "Listen, baby."
His hands trembled faintly as they threaded through her hair, "I will never let you go. Not now. Not ever." Each word landed with quiet force. "So stop letting those thoughts haunt you, because they have no place in a world where we exist."
"You speak of abandonment as if it could ever be possible," he murmured. "When I cannot even bear the thought of a single second without you. Not one. From the moment you collided with me in that empty academy corridor, something irreversible happened." His voice softened, thick with raw emotions, "You seeped into every sense I possess. Every silence. Every breath."
He shook his head slowly, as if the idea alone was unbearable, "I did not know what emptiness truly was until you filled it."
