IN THE WAKE OF A DREAM: Book One of the Newcomer Trilogy by Shayn Bloom

Author:Shayn Bloom
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, psychology, paranormal romance, paranormal, psychological thriller, contemporary romance, newcomer trilogy

10. Eli

“That first question,” I began, hiding my smile. “Who is considered the father of modern psychology? That was Carl Jung, right?”

Ash looked at me in horror. “Did you really!”

Laughing, I climbed the steps up to the deck. “No, I didn’t. I said Freud.”

“That’s a relief,” Ash said. “That would have been really bad.” Walking to the kitchen door, Ash led me inside.

“Cookies!”

Ash’s enormous kitchen, having been so clean before, was positively stirring with baking hoopla now. Jars of everything littered the marble countertops and cookie laden baking sheets were spread over the island, irresistibly wafting the smell of deliciousness.

“Welcome!” Wayfara cried, revealing himself from behind the open fridge door. “Come sample some of our fine, fresh cookies!” His dirty blonde hair was tied back into a ninja ponytail and he was wearing a flowered apron.

Cassie’s apron was pink. She was standing by the stove and pouring hot water into a cone-filtered coffee pot. She coughed obviously. “You should try my cookies before his,” she said, winking. “While you can still consciously appreciate them.”

“Huggles doesn’t trust me with cookies anymore,” Wayfara explained. “It’s a shame, really.”

“Enough with the Huggles!” Cassie yelled, but her smile was barely restrained. I giggled involuntarily. Cassie rounded on me. “Think it’s funny? Perhaps I should force feed you Wayfara’s cookies! That’d teach you a lesson!”

“Hey!” Wayfara said indignantly. “Don’t knock the cookies.” He beckoned me over. “Check these out, Annie.”

Upon seeing the cookies, I grinned appreciatively. Each was in the shape of a tiny dreamcatcher. “Wayfara,” I breathed. “This must have taken –”

“Forever,” he finished. “The aluminum kept breaking when I was making the cutter. It took even longer to make than your dreamcatcher, Annie,” he added, smiling. “But hey, now we have dream cookies!”

I smiled helplessly. “No more nightmares after a dream cookie, right?”

Cassie checked the oven before turning to Wayfara. “The Holan wouldn’t want you making dream cookies.”

“Where is Coraline, anyway?” Ash asked.

“Went abroad this morning,” Cassie replied. “To a Holurn in Stockholm. She’s going to request some additional Utopians.”

“What for?” Wayfara asked. “We can manage with five or six.”

“Five,” Cassie corrected. “And if having foreign Utopians around here means fewer suicides in Baltimore then I’m onboard. Five is pitiful.”

Wayfara fiddled with his ninja tail. His words were hinting. “Soon there might be a sixth Utopian.”

“He never gives you a break, does he?” I asked, turning to Ash.

“Never,” Ash replied.

I sampled a dream cookie. The deliciousness of it threatened to turn my mouth into a waterfall of saliva. It was the perfect texture, the perfect temperature, the perfect taste. “Mmmh,” I moaned through a mouthful. “So good!”

Wayfara looked pleased. “Really, you like it?” I gave him a double thumbs up, my mouth still full.

“Time to be heading upstairs,” said Ash, squeezing my shoulder.

“Whatcha up to?” Wayfara asked.

I swallowed the rest of my cookie. “Dreamdrifting!”

“Dream cookies,” Ash said, shaking his head as we climbed the winding staircase. “What will he think of next?” Outside of his room, Ash gestured me inside politely. “After you.”

Sporting

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