Selene POV

Eventually, exhaustion won.My eyes drifted closed despite the lingering unease. Despite the empty space beside me where Sylvester should have been.

Sleep pulled me under.And the dreams returned.

But this time, it was different.I wasn’t falling through darkness. Wasn’t drowning in the shadows.

I was standing in a forest. Sunlight filtering through the trees. The air smelled clean. Fresh. Free.

And someone was walking toward me.A man.

He was tall and had broad shoulders. ...