Karma's Save The Date: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel (Magical Midlife in Mystic Hollow Book 9) by Lacey Carter & L.A. Boruff

Author:Lacey Carter & L.A. Boruff [Carter, Lacey & Boruff, L.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2025-12-19T00:00:00+00:00

TWELVE

Emma

I woke up suddenly, shockingly. My body went straight upright, lungs dragging air in by the bucketful. Beside me, Daniel’s hand shot out across my waist, pinning me to the mattress like I might try to bolt for the door. He’d gone from hibernation to full combat alert in the time it took for my first breath.

“Emma,” he said, and it didn’t even sound groggy. Just a thick, brambled concern, laced with an old policeman’s ready suspicion.

“Sorry. Sorry. Bad dream,” I said, or tried to. My mouth barely opened. There was too much of a shudder in my chest, and I was still trying to remember what reality was.

He sat up, scanning the bedroom as if the dream had left some physical evidence behind for him to tackle. “What happened?”

I sagged, then, and let my head hit the pillow again, shoving sweat-plastered hair from my eyes. The room still held some of that panic, but nothing except the two of us and the low gleam of the hallway nightlight waited in the dark.

“It was just a dream,” I said, quieter. “It’s nothing.”

Daniel’s hand traveled from my waist to my shoulder, warm and heavy. “If it was nothing, you wouldn’t sound like you just ran a marathon. Was it…?”

I knew what he meant, and didn’t want to answer, so I did the thing I did best and looked at the ceiling instead.

“Emma,” Daniel said again.

I reached over and covered his hand with mine. “It was about Alice,” I said, finally. “Again. She was calling out for help. I couldn’t see where she was, but she was desperate. And there was this light? Like everything went white, all at once.”

Daniel didn’t answer right away. His breathing changed, though, and he inched closer. “Could it be a premonition?”

I shook my head. “I don’t think so. It was too scrambled. More like a panic attack with special effects.”

He didn’t contradict me, but he kept his hand there. I could have stayed like that, counting my pulse in his thumb, but eventually the dampness beneath the sheets made it clear I’d sweated through everything.

“I need a minute,” I said, and pulled away. Daniel let me go, but only after pressing a quick, dry kiss against my temple.

I left the bedroom with bare feet, and the hallway’s hardwood chilled my skin in a way that woke me up, properly. The rest of the house sat silent as I padded down the stairs. My phone blinked at me from the kitchen counter, but I ignored it.

Instead, I drifted toward the living room. The walls were mostly windows, and even at two in the morning, the ocean outside managed to catch what little moonlight was on offer. I pressed my forehead to the glass, a kid again, watching the old world’s edges for monsters. The dream still itched at the back of my head.

There were blankets on the couch, and I took one and draped it around myself, but kept the patio door open a crack. I needed air, even if it meant fogging up my glasses.

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