The Officer by Kelli Callahan

Author:Kelli Callahan [Callahan, Kelli]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kelli Callahan Books
Published: 2021-01-17T18:00:00+00:00

I fall asleep with angry thoughts of Noah in my head.

Suddenly, I am surrounded by darkness and running. The darkness creeps in closer until I feel like I’m suffocating as its cold fingers reach up and cloak my skin. There’s someone ahead of me, not too far, but not close enough for me to reach them. It’s a female I can tell that much.

As I race forward my feet slap against the hard concrete. God it’s getting harder to breathe as I stretch my hand out desperately wishing that I could reach her and tell who she is.

Suddenly, I find myself in a room. It’s big and open and the sky seems to jet highly above me forever with only darkness and stars. And from the darkness a single glowing ball drops down in the center, trained over the floor, illuminating a very small circle.

Stopping my chase, I turn and look at a package on another floor. I need to go to it, it’s important, but I can’t remember why. As I get closer to it a figure darts from the shadows, scoops up the package, and races in the opposite direction.

I am running again. I don’t know how much longer I can do this. Blood is rushing in my ears and I can hear every hard thump of my heart as it goes faster and faster. Every pounding step I take has my blood pumping violently and forces it to move faster and faster.

Now I am running down a long, angular corridor with no windows or lights. Somehow, despite the darkness, I can still make out the silhouette of a woman running ahead of me, her feet slapping lightly on the concrete.

She’s only inches away now. I can feel the cotton hoodie under my hand. I clinch the hood, grabbing a fist full of hair in the process of turning her around to face me. Before I can pull back the hood I feel like I know her, as I stare at the long locks of brown hair. Forcing back the hood, I see it’s Lucy!

Gasping for air, I find myself sitting up in my bed sweating and searching next to me frantically for the woman whose hair I just had in my fingers. But where there should be a hoodie and hair, there is only the sheet twisted around my hands.

That was one hell of a nightmare.

I look around me waiting for my heart rate to slow down. I can’t come down. My heart is beating so quickly, and I find myself longing for a woman on the other side of town. I need to see her now. I need her in my arms to hold her, to touch her, to love her.

I run down the stairs of my quiet home, not bothering to lock the front door or even check to make sure it’s closed all the way, as I slip on my shoes and race to my cruiser. I know I shouldn’t be using it for personal business but the nightmare fighting my mind for reality tells me I need to get to Lucy.

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