Save Her Lose Us (Evangeline and Soren) novel Chapter 62

The sky in his dream pressed down, so heavy and dark it seemed ready to collapse at any moment.

He saw Evangeline kneeling beside a small mound of earth, her head bowed so low he couldn't see her face, but he could feel, with aching certainty, the pain etched in her posture.

A sharp, prickling ache spread across his chest.

He started toward her, intending to ask what had happened, but just as he took a step, Evangeline rose to her feet and walked away—moving in the exact opposite direction from him.

"Evangeline," Soren called out automatically, her name catching in his throat.

She didn't react, didn't even slow down. Her footsteps only grew more hurried, putting more and more distance between them.

Frustration tightened Soren's brow. His voice grew sharper. "Evangeline, where are you going? Stop!"

Still, she ignored him, striding away faster and faster, slipping further from his reach.

Soren's frustration flared. He tried to quicken his pace, desperate to catch up, but in the next instant, Poppy appeared out of nowhere, stepping abruptly between him and Evangeline.

Poppy's eyes danced with mischief as she smiled up at him. "Soren, where are you off to?"

He tried to look past her, searching for Evangeline, but her figure had vanished as if swallowed by the gloom.

Where Evangeline had disappeared, sunlight suddenly broke through, chasing off the storm clouds—so dazzling and fierce it forced Soren to shield his eyes.

"Soren?"

Poppy's voice, familiar and close, echoed again.

The world around him flickered and warped, the distant hum of voices fading away like an ebbing tide.

Soren opened his eyes.

A gentle knock sounded at his bedroom door.

Poppy's voice carried through the wood, nearly identical to how it had sounded in his dream, but more subdued. "Soren, breakfast is ready. Come down and eat something."

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