Chapter 0266

Chapter 0266

And in my current state, only one thought came to mind:

I need to get out.

Without thinking or realizing that I was just imagining things, I bolted from my bed and ran to Noah’s room next door. I pounded on the wood, not caring how the sound reverberated through the empty house. “Noah! Noah, please!”

The door flew open a moment later, and Noah stood there, his eyes glowing amber and his glistening white fangs dropped. With a low grow, he pulled me into one arm, his other raised to fight an invisible attacker.

“What is it? What’s wrong?”

I sobbed into his chest, my words muffled against his skin. “Jake… he came back… in my dream… He was trying to take me again…”

It was only then that I realized that the figure I had seen was just a lingering hallucination from my nightmare, but it didn’t make the terror any less real.

Noah’s body relaxed, but he didn’t let go. Instead, his arm tightened around me, one hand stroking my hair.

a nightmare. You’re safe, Hannah. I’ve

pulled back slightly, wiping my eyes. “I’m sorry,

thumb coming up to wipe away a stray tear. “Don’t apologize. You have nothing to be

the kitchen, his hand warm on the small of my back the entire way. The house was quiet, our footsteps echoing softly

you some warm milk. It’ll

unlike him. Maybe, while I had been having nightmares, he had been dreaming about happy moments. That was the only explanation I could find

quietly, breaking the silence, “about your

one eyebrow raised. “It’s late, Hannah. You don’t have


of the opera and the string quartet Tong since having faded in my mind, but his question–and his promise–had lingered. Even in the wake of Jake’s

said, cautiously meeting his gaze in the dimly lit

at me for a moment, clearly surprised. “Are

hand moved to touch my belly, where his child was

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returned. His lips, so warm and soft against mine. The way he had dipped me low, and now, his tousled hair

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