How To Love A Crook by Linda Verji

Author:Linda Verji [Verji, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-08T16:00:00+00:00

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THE DREAM HAD changed again.

This time Lee wasn’t inside the house. He was outside it, his hand firmly tucked into Amara’s as they watched the house burn. And burn it did. Angry flames leapt up to consume the house. Sparks like fireworks lit up the sky above giving it a red hue that was as breathtaking as it was frightening.

Lee should’ve been sad to see such senseless ruin. Yet he wasn’t. For some reason, he felt giddy with happiness. If he could, he would’ve danced. His monster and its house were gone. Gone forever.

We should go. Amara’s soft voice echoed in his subconscious, drawing his gaze up to her. Tonight she seemed taller and stronger than he’d ever seen her. He smiled and nodded. Her grip on his hand tight, she led him away from the house.

The scene shifted, and suddenly they were in a field. A field that was so wide it seemed never ending. Behind them the sounds of a mob of people coming echoed. The giddy happiness that had filled Lee moments ago disappeared like chaff in the wind. Panic and fear took hold as he and Amara began to run.

Lee was too scared to look back to see if the mob chasing them were monsters too. Nonetheless, he knew that he and Amara had to escape them. But that wasn’t to be. The faster they ran, the slower they seemed to move. He looked up at Amara and found the strength in her eyes gone. In its place was a fear he’d never see.

Lee, faster, she silently pleaded. We have to run faster.

But they weren’t fast enough. They caught Amara first. Invisible hands tore her from him.

Amara, he screamed even as more hands pulled him away from her. Amara.

But she was disappearing into a mist so thick it almost looked like she was being swallowed whole.

Amara. Lee jolted awake with a harsh gasp. He rubbed his face with his hands and took in a shaky breath to steady his rattled nerves but it had little effect.

What the hell was that? Usually he woke up with a lingering sense of the fear that only his nightmares could ignite. But today’s fear was different; it was tinged with sadness as if he’d lost a part of himself by losing the Amara in his dreams. As he prepared for the day, the nightmare lingered with him, as did the girl in his dreams.

Amara. The emotions the girl left him with were odd yet familiar. Familiar in that they were the same emotions he felt when he was with A.J. When she was near him, he felt less anxious. In fact, her effect on him was so pronounced that last night when he’d slept in her arms, he hadn’t had any nightmares. That was the first time in several weeks that he’d slept through the night.

And it was all because A.J was next to him.

Had she lied about them never having met? It felt like they’d met. She felt too familiar.

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