Gavrael did not know that his soul had been stuck in a world without Evie, a fake world created to make him suffer. This was his greatest fear, a world without her, a place where she does not exist. And this was the price he had to pay. He was going to continue living in suffering, always looking for her, forever. He would be stuck living in this world without her. And he would suffer and be tormented endlessly, continually looking for someone that he would never ever find.
He was not aware that his soul had been trapped in an illusionary world inside his own body. He was also unaware that he had turned back time not just for a matter of days or weeks as he had intended to, but in fact, for many years into the past.
Instead of just days, to return to that night he decided to leave Evie, had he returned many years prior. He had reversed time up till when he was still a little boy.