After Dusk

Chapter Seven

A sigh of relief escaped passed my lips as I snuggled deeper into my pillow, the warmth of my bed made me questioned why I would ever want to leave this small piece of heaven on earth every day. 

My eyes closed as I relaxed more into the bed quickly feeling a blanket of tiredness wash over my body as I laid there, "Maybe a little nap wouldn't hurt, I deserve it." I convinced myself with a small smile. 

Just as I was about to surrender to my tiredness willingly, a heavenly smell of cologne invalid my senses. I inhaled deeply trying to fill in every inch of my lungs with the intoxicating scent. Without much thought, my body began to slowly move closer to the source of the smell like a magnet until I bumped into something hard but warm. My brows narrowed slightly in confusion, I don't remember leaving something in my bed. 

As soon as I opened my eyes to investigate what the object was, my eyes landed on a pair of intense smoldering blue-green eyes staring back at me. I felt my eyes widen as I stared back at Tobias, who was wearing the same luxurious black tux from the wedding, laying next to me in my bed.

"Elena," Tobias whispered huskily as he moved his face closer to mine, his smoldering look intensifying as he inched closer to me. I gasped loudly, forcing a blast of air into my lungs as my brain tried to figure out how Tobias ended up in my room, let alone my bed, in the first place. Before I could process what was going on, my eyes once again flew open and I was gasping for air as I stared at my ceiling above my bed. I quickly looked to my side where Tobias was laying only to find that, besides my body, the bed was completely empty 

I dragged a hand over my face as I closed my eyes once again, "It... it was just a dream," I said softly to myself trying to calm my heart down as it was beating rapidly against my rib cage.

Taking slow breathes, I listened to my heartbeat gradually revert back to its normal rhythm before looking over to the corner of my room where a light blue tie laid untouched on the floor. I slightly glared at the tie as if it had done something unforgivable, which for me it did.

 It reminded me of him, the ass that I tried so hard to not think about when my mind would wander off.

With a huff, I turned my body harshly away from the tie so it was completely out of sight. 

A month had passed since Sebastian and Emma's wedding and I can still remember vividly coming home and throwing that light blue tie as hard as I could in the corner of my room before stomping away from it, wanting nothing to do with it ever since then. 

Picking up my phone from the nightstand and checking the time, I was surprised to see that the clock read 8:12 am. Dropping my phone on my bed, I sighed to myself before looking down at the bed where the Tobias in my dream was laying. 

He was so close... 

I tried not to think about Tobias too much since the last time I saw him. There were a few times when I thought I saw Tobias in town or at a store and I would find myself wanting to power walking right over to him and give Tobias a piece of my mind. One time I decided to act on my desire and walked right up to the individual in question, only to discover it wasn't him... just someone who looked similar to Tobias. 

My hand stretched out across the bedsheets before stopping in the spot where the Tobias in my dreams had laid. Feeling the cold bedsheet under my skin, I wasn't sure if I was glad it was just a dream... or disappointed? I couldn't quite put my finger on the right word to describe the feeling that stirred in my chest but seeing those eyes again while smelling his amazing cologne woke some unknown feeling in me. And knowing that it was just a dream that caused these feelings confused me more.