New Beginnings (Cutter's Creek Book 3) by Boone Annie

Author:Boone, Annie [Boone, Annie]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2016-05-14T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

All of a sudden, a stabbing feeling of dread and fear brought him out of his sleep. He woke up with a start and looked around. He was in the guest bedroom at Janine’s. He was drenched with sweat. He sat up and wiped his brow. He was breathing heavily as if he’d just run a hundred miles.

Then he remembered. The dream. He’d been down at the river. He was sitting under the willow tree set back just a bit from the water.

Just as he was about to leave, he saw a woman coming out from the woods. She was running toward the river. She was naked. Her long legs helped her to run fast and effortlessly. She seemed familiar, but he couldn’t place her. The young woman ran past him and jumped into the water. He stood and stared at her in amazement.

She disappeared under the water and he thought she was gone. Then, her head bobbed out of the water. River water streamed from her dark hair and sparkled like diamonds on her tanned skin. She beckoned for him to follow her with a simple gesture.

He felt like he was under a spell as his feet started carrying him towards the water. Caleb had just reached the bank and was about to dip his feet into the cool, flowing river when the beautiful woman’s face became a mask of terror. She started screaming and flailing about in the water.

“Caleb, save me! Oh, Caleb, please save me!” the woman screamed. She was frantic as her head dipped back under the water. Caleb tried to jump into the water to help her, but the water had receded far back from the bank where he stood. He started running towards the water, but the more he ran, the further it receded. The screams of the woman grew more hysterical.

Suddenly, the screaming stopped and all he heard was a piercing silence. Caleb stopped short in his tracks. The river had returned back to its original place and he was still standing on the edge of the water. He looked around, but the woman in the river had disappeared. He couldn’t see her anywhere in the river. She was gone.

He felt the anxiety rise in his chest so quickly that it took him over completely. He couldn’t breathe. He felt like he was underwater and couldn’t get air. He was drowning and he wasn’t even in the water. How was this possible?

Then he heard a voice behind him. It was a voice he’d know anywhere. A voice he hadn’t heard in more than six years. “Caleb, you could have saved me! Why didn’t you come? Why did you let me die?”

The dream always ended there. He never answered her question and he could never save her. He hadn’t had the dream in almost a year. Did Audrey’s arrival have anything to do with the return of the dream?

He’d hoped the guilt and the dream would go away as time went by, but it wasn’t getting better.

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