Dream of Me by Selena Collins

Author:Selena Collins [Selena Collins]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Endless Romance
Published: 2021-09-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Mia barely made it to the door before her chest tightened, and it became hard to breathe. Her bag slipped to the floor with a dull thud, the world went black around the edges, and she scrambled over to the couch before her legs collapsed from under her. Her body was shaky as she laid out on the cushions, curling into a fetal position. Closing her eyes tight, Mia focused on her breathing.

In the nose.

Out the mouth.

Nice and steady.

Like a chant.

Finally, her heartbeat began to slow, and the tightness in her chest subsided. She opened her eyes and rolled to her back, focusing on relaxing every muscle in her body. She stared up at her ceiling and decided she wasn’t going into the shop after all. What was she thinking anyway? Her home was broken into only hours after she was at her most intimate with Nick. She couldn’t just go about her life like it was any another day. She looked around the room, still bearing signs of the night before. It was as if the doors to her deepest secrets were opened to some invisible villain, and no locks could keep them shut. Even as the helplessness washed over her, anger was close behind. That invisible villain had the nerve to walk into her home, break her things, and threaten her sense of peace.

But they wouldn’t destroy it. She wasn’t going to let them.

Sitting up on the couch, Mia was determined to regain her sense of control. With a deep breath, she threw her legs over the side, and the cool wood floor beneath her feet was a welcome grounding force. She was stronger than she gave herself credit for. Mia stood and clasped her hands before her, looking around the room like a queen surveying her kingdom. For a moment, she considered calling Alexis but decided against it. This was something she needed to do herself. For herself.

Pulling the chairs and sofa to the middle of the room, Mia began to give the floor another thorough sweeping. She dumped a dustpan’s worth of dust and dirt and the tiniest glass shards in the trash, then picked up the mop and walked back into the living room where the worst of the damage had been. On one hand, she wanted to make sure there were no traces of glass left for her feet to find later, but on the other hand, it was important to her that she cleanse her space. Someone uninvited had walked on these floors, and she wanted every trace of them gone.

Next, she walked over to the stack of picture frames Nick had carefully piled on the antique desk she used as a television stand. It stood next to the shortest of her bookshelves, a small nod to the eclectic blending of old and new that Mia loved. She sorted the frames into two piles: one for damaged frames where the glass had been shattered and one for frames with the glass intact.

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