Chapter 216: Nightmare
Lennox’s POV
"No!" I yelled, jerking up from my sleep. My chest rose and fell in rapid bursts as I fumbled for the light on the nightstand and switched it on. Sweat clung to my forehead, my hands trembling.
My heart wouldn’t stop pounding. The images from the dream wouldn’t leave my head.
Olivia beheaded. Her blood everywhere. Her lifeless, headless body lying in a pool of her own blood. It felt so real, too real. Even now, I could still feel the cold shiver crawling down my spine.
I shut my eyes tightly and tried to mind-link. I reached for her in the only way I thought I still could.
"Olivia..."
But nothing came.
It was blank. Empty. Silent.
As if... she had blocked me.
I clenched my jaw. Maybe she didn’t want us to reach her anymore.
Still shaking, I picked up my phone and dialed her number. It rang once.
Twice.
Three times.
Then it ended.
Not even voicemail.
Instead, a message popped up on my screen.
"What do you want at this time of the night?"
I stared at it.
My chest tightened.
I quickly typed back:
"Please pick up my call. Just for a second."
Her reply came in seconds:
"No. I don’t want anything to do with you or your brothers."
I swallowed hard, my throat dry. My fingers moved quickly as I typed:
"Olivia, please... just be careful. I had a dream about you. Something was wrong—really wrong."
concern, her response hit
is one of your tricks to make me scared, it’s not going to work. I’m fine. I’m happy here with Gabriel, and maybe I’ll start a new life with him. So leave me alone. I’m blocking your
like
screen went silent. My
Blocked.
message, my chest aching like someone was tightening a rope around it. I wanted to
to
her messages didn’t
Sure, she was angry.
hated us
was upset, her words
These texts?
They felt cold. Robotic.
was seven. We’d been through so much
And these?
didn’t feel like
shook my
Maybe she really
down, but my chest
Something wasn’t right.
deep down, I
dream wasn’t
It was a warning.
knock
could ask who it was,
It was Louis.
sprang up instantly and
his eyes wide with fear. And just behind him, Levi appeared,
said, his voice raw and
too," Levi added,
ask what kind of dream.
into my room, leaving the door open. They followed close behind and shut
Levi paced
filled with fear. "There was blood—so much of it. I saw her head... just lying there, separate from her body.
finished for him, his voice barely above a whisper. "I saw it too. Exactly the same
and looked
same dream," I
and
in her own blood. I woke up in a panic. I tried mind-linking
frowned. "She blocked
I nodded.
instead. She didn’t pick up. Just sent a message telling me
up straighter. "What did
to start a
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