Chapter 68

**Sloane (Just Napping)**

There’s nothing here. Not darkness, not light, just a hollow space in between, where sound moves slowly, and memory tastes like static. Then there's a heartbeat. A steady thump thump, thump thump. Not mine, but His. I know it before I know my own name.

“Ronan?”

The sound doesn’t reach anything. It falls away, swallowed by the nothingness. The air—or whatever passes for ai