Chapter 28
Nightmares.
Lauren knew they were all just nightmares. But once they came, she couldn’t help herself but live in it.
“Mom p–please not Dad! No!
“Lauren Lauren, it’s ok It’s okay. I got you”
Lauren trembled at the sight right in front of her eyes. She was seeing the very moment that scarred her. The moment that made her desperate for safety. Made her desperate for comfort.
The image of her mother and father’s body, hanging and broken in front of her was too disturbing. It pushed her to the brink of insanity. Sealed her to a rage Elled with dread.
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please_p please she kept on mumbling, helpless as she saw in her mind’s eyes how savagely the Vampire killed them. Killed her entire
She wished she was dead at that moment. She wished she didn’t see them.
She wished she hadn’t lived through that tragedy and survived that night. All she wanted was to vanish and fade, like the life she could see leaving their bodies
The horrors of seeing it lived within her. She couldn’t stop them from coming. It was the reason why she clung so hard to anything that would make her feel safe. Make her feel protected.
The image of the vampire standing
ng in front of her parents turned to her. She gasped and did her best to keep her mouth shut.
But he still saw her hiding behind the shadows. He still pierced her with those blood red eyes that glowed through the darkest night of her life.
““Lauren!”
Her mind snapped and her eyes focused on the sound coming from the man in front of her.
Derlan. His usually cold eyes Iooked worried and concerned.
He caressed her arms and cheek. “Breathe for me, baby.
Breathe”
Lauren heaved deep breaths and did her best to focus in the present.
“Trees. Everywhere I see are trees. Not those eyes. Those red eyes?
Lauren’s breath calmed down slowly. She could feel how her chest had loosened a bit, her heartbeat moving at a slower pace as she went back to reality. Out of her head. Her sweat trickled down the sides of her face.
“Are you okay?”
She looked at Declan who had been whispering soothing words to her ears. She could vaguely hear him, but her hightmares overpowered his voice Not until he grabbed her away from it and saved her. Again.
One of the main reasons why she pushed through marrying him even when she knew he wasn’t ready was this. He always saved her from them. From her nightmares. From her insanity,
She clung to his prace. To his security. To the comfort and protection she felt whenever he was around. It saved her from drowning into that sanity–grabbing memory. His presence was keeping her sane.
I’m okay,” she said, remembering that he was asking a question.
She looked away from his concerned face. It always felt like salvation whenever she woke up to his worried expression. It made her greedy for him She wanted him to be her bearon. The light in her darkusess–filled tunnel.
But because of that, their relationship was ruined.
“You still have it?” He asked gently, holding her arm as if she was fragile.
Lauren vaguely remembered how he called her by an endearment earlier. But she shook herself away from that feeling
Shur couldn’t afford depending her sanity on someone again.
She didn’t want to go through the same things si
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she did when the lost that relationship with Declan five years ago.
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da perak, casting bright light around the
though the window as they med by the thick forest, going farther away from their park.
hummediately felt bad how dar hadn’t even had the chance to say goodbye properly to Jasper. She was ton aut
She was to out of it after everything that had Jappened. All star wanted was for her children too far sale, hilar comilla’t think of anything clar
of contact fuper asso
as soon as they arrived.
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be clearly transferred. Lauren dadu’t
want to think it
was becauer he knew
k like that. She was awake, but she couldn’t see past her traumas. It always breaks his heart.
bonders of the Eastern Lands. We’re almost in Black Hidges,” he answered when she scooted even closer to the window where the thunding winels. He could feel law she didn’t want to get closer to him. Lauren was avoiding whatever interaction he was initiating
When the woke up frown her pundi ked state, le didn’t see the samur relief he always saw on lier
he was used
Her relief was of a fleeting moment, before warning flashed through her brown expressive eyes. And for some reason, Declan felt hurt.
For the longest time, he wanted ular alde to get past her traumas. To be Mile to remember that moment–just remember it and not relive it as
He wanted her to overcome her traumas. Even if it meant not needing him anymore. For as long as she would heal, fir was happy.
cas not of healing
He clenched has futs, feeling pain courar dhurongli lils wins. He knew for wronged her so much. And it was hurting him that he was hurting her.
that she says i
maen knew star almodd la happy Hearing him call her that endearment bag been her dream for the longest time,
But instead of happiness, hart was hating though her chest. Pricking through fer heart that was added with so much emotions
