Broken Dreams: A Dark Romantic Thriller (Beautiful Nightmare Book 2) by Abbie Roads

Author:Abbie Roads [Roads, Abbie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abbie Roads
Published: 2023-05-08T16:00:00+00:00

11

Eternal whiteness expanded outward in every direction. Silence was sovereign, supreme, and sharp as a scalpel. She remembered what had happened last time when she made a sound. This time she’d keep her lips clamped shut. No one could say she wasn’t a fast learner.

Knowing she should remain quiet made her want to call out to Lathan. Could she yell loud enough for him to hear her, to wake her up? Surely not. Dr. Stone said she was in a different dimension when she had one of these dreams—a dimension reality couldn’t find. Even if she could yell across dimensions, Lathan wouldn’t be able to hear—unless they were having sex. That was something neither of them knew how to categorize.

Evil was behind her. She felt its malicious energy changing the air, charging it with apprehension, making it heavy and thick and resistant when she tried to suck it into her lungs. Her arms and hands quivered. Her insides fluttered. Muscles twitched in her eyes. Fear settled on her back, riding her like an invisible demon.

Wake up. Wake up. Wake up. She pinched her arm. Nothing. Slapped her cheek. Nothing. No escaping.

“Please. I need your help.” A male voice. Volume normal, not excruciating. So everyone else’s volume was normal, but hers would be punishing?

She forced herself to face the horror she knew was behind her.

Lying on the ground was a guy. His brown hair boyishly long, feathered over his forehead like a pop star. In his eyes she saw the fading hubris of someone who thought he’d live forever, but made it only to his early twenties. He looked so normal.

Except his torso was severed from his hips and legs.

Organs oozed out of him onto the stark white surface. Blood pooled around him, framing him in crimson. His foot twitched, slapped in a puddle of blood. Splack. Splack. Splack.

Vomit gushed from her mouth, slobbering down her chin and neck. She bent and heaved on the floor. Splatters of her foulness pelted the guy’s face. He didn’t flinch, didn’t blink.

“God, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to—” She fastened a hand over her mouth, but then realized her volume was normal. Normal. Not the magnified resonance that threatened to liquefy her brain.

Her legs wobbled, threatened to let her down, but she locked her knees. She might be shaking so badly she looked like she was seizing, but she was going to keep control of her body this time.

The guy’s chocolate-colored gaze met hers. “Tell my mom to stop looking for me. I don’t want her to find out about this.” Water swelled in his eyes, overflowed. His Adam’s apple bobbed as he swallowed and cleared his throat. “It would kill her, and she needs to be strong for Kallie.”

“Kallie?” She shouldn’t have asked, shouldn’t encourage communication with him when he felt so, so…evil.

A genuine smile brightened his eyes. “My little sister. She’s my heart. She has leukemia. Me being gone will be hard on her, but if something happened to Mom, it would decimate her.

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