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Missy
“Wake up, Angel.” Javier’s worried voice reached me from far away, cutting short my dream. “Missy, you’re talking to yourself. I think you’re dreaming.”
I forced my eyelids to work and found Javier balancing on one elbow next to me, his tensed face hovering over me.
“Are you okay?” he asked, gently cupping my chin.
“I’m fine.” Easing away from his touch, I sat up on the bed and blinked off the dream.
He pushed off the mattress and settled against the headboard beside me. “Were you having a nightmare?”
“I’m not sure if it was a nightmare or not.”
“It wouldn’t surprise me if you had nightmares after what happened yesterday with Rozina.”
“That’s done and over.” I hesitated then met Javier’s gaze. “I had a weird dream just now. It was very powerful.”
“Here.” He reached for the bottle of water standing on his night table, cracked it open, and handed it to me. “What’s happening inside your head?”
“I’m not sure.” I took small sips, moistening my throat while still trying to figure out what I’d seen. “I was dreaming about the past. It felt as if I were witnessing something that had already happened.”
“A vision from the past?” He frowned. “That’s a new kind of dream for you, isn’t it?”
“Not really.” I gave the bottle back. “I dream about my family often. About when we were kids and the happy times we spent together. I dream about my sisters a lot, too. And about my brother, of course.”
“I see.” He returned the bottle to the nightstand.
His face looked suddenly guarded, so my pulse picked up. I’d awakened with a lot of questions swirling in my head. Now the dream made me consider things Javi had said in the past about people he’d lost and things I should know about him. Emotions tangled in my belly—uncertainty but also something else, certainty without understanding. Why this dream? Why now? Was it real?
“What did you see in your dream?” His halting voice betrayed his reluctance.
“In the dream, I was just sort of…” I grappled for words. “I was floating in the air, as if witnessing something that had happened, something that felt… sacred.”
“Sacred?” He drew his eyebrows together. “What was your dream about?”
“It was about you.” The pressure shifted from my chest to my throat. “In the dream, my brother Nix was with you.”
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Javier
Caught. Trapped in a lie by omission. My stomach plummeted. She’d dreamed about Nix and me. On this very night, when everything had changed for me. Had she discovered my secret in her dreams? Was it even possible?
I gulped so loudly that my throat croaked.
“It wasn’t the clearest of dreams,” she ventured quietly. “In it, you were behind some sort of low stone wall. There was yellow dirt everywhere, sand maybe. Nix crouched next to you.”
“Did he?” I could barely get the words out.
“There was smoke and loud sounds. Explosions, perhaps?” She glanced up at me as if looking for confirmation, but all I could do was watch her eyes reflecting the fear etched on my face. “You two were huddled behind that wall in a kind of improvised foxhole, maybe?”
Another glance. I was petrified. I couldn’t confirm ordeny.
“You were both bloodied, and you seemed… hurt.” She winced. “Nix smiled at you. He asked if you were okay. He then said, ‘That was very brave, Goof, but you shouldn’t have joined me in this joint.’” She imitated her brother’s warm, confident voice almost to perfection.
I gulped again, unable to get a single word through my tight throat.
“Do you know what you replied?” she asked, studying me closely.
