Falling For Trance by Rena Marks

Author:Rena Marks [Marks, Rena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Terran Publishing
Published: 2019-12-15T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

WHEN NEXT SHE SLEPT, she screamed for him. Remembering where she left off, but the timeline had changed, as it frequently did when she left. The lines were starting to blur now. It was becoming increasingly difficult to recall which world was real. Because they both felt like it while you were in the middle of them. And she knew which one she preferred.

“I’m here, baby. I’m here,” he soothed, holding her close in their bed as she sobbed.

“It was awful. It was the other side,” she babbled. “You were there, but you’re not my husband there. You’re my sponsor. We fight a lot. And when I left? I was just going to put my bra on and meet you out front to go to Pax and Serena’s. Remember you were gathering the food ingredients?” She was barely aware of his nod. “But the alarm was chirping and when I went to turn it off, it fell onto the ground and broke. But it still chirped. Then the chirping woke me and, it was the other side. The same broken alarm but it chirped on both sides. I hurried and got ready and he was there. Waiting for me. He had the same ingredients in the box, Trance. It freaked me the hell out. And he knew the appointment was at Pax’s. He shouldn’t have known because it wasn’t on the schedule. But he did. He wouldn’t give me a good explanation either. I can tell he’s hiding something and it’s so suspicious and I don’t trust him—”

“What other side?” His voice was wary. “What are you talking about?”

He sounded as cagey here as he did over there. “The side I go to when I wake. Or when I sleep. I’m not sure which is which anymore. I don’t know which one is the real one.”

“We need to get you some help,” he whispered against her hair. And then he teased, “This world or the other.”

“What do you mean by help?”

He shrugged. “One of the doctors needs to know of your sleeping habits. Your dreaming patterns.”

“I don’t want my dreams taken from me!” Her voice was almost shrill. What if they took the wrong life? She couldn’t lose Trance.

“Hey, wife,” he rumbled, rolling over so his body covered hers. His arms supported his weight. “No one is taking anything away from you. I promise.”

She calmed a bit. “You promise, husband?” Her voice was back to its teasing tone.

“I promise.” He nipped her lower lip. “What are we going to do when we’re not newlyweds anymore? Will it be creepy to call each other husband and wife when we’re eighty?”

A small giggle burst out of her. She loved this place; treasured her marriage to Trance, her life in Xenia, the ever-present, bubbling happiness that existed here. “It might be. Let’s get it all out of our systems now?”

“Okay, wife,” he growled. “Now, make love to your husband.”

And that erased any memories of the horrid place where she’d just been. The place where they were strangers tolerating each other.

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