Mira’s eyes opened slowly like soone had poured honey over her eyelids, or better still, glue.
Her body felt heavy and ached badly, like she’d axed wood in her sleep.
She blinked a few tis before her world ca into focus as she wondered where she was at first.
Her bedroom? Lucas’ mansion. Right.
But how did I even get here?
She reached up to rub her face and winced a little when her fingers brushed her cheek. It was warm and tender, like soone had slapped her.
Oh right! Evelyn slapped yesterday.
The mory finally started coming back in pieces.
The missing bullion, Sanders dia collapsing, Evelyn’s slap, how she wanted to confront Lucas about going back on his word.
The woods.
The wolf.
The—
She stopped to rewind that part.
The wolf that turned into Lucas.
A nervous laugh bubbled up from her chest before she could stop it.
"Well, unless I’m crazy," she whispered to herself in the empty room, "there’s absolutely no way a wolf turned into a human. Or Lucas, for that matter."
She pressed her palms against her eyes as if trying to sort reality from whatever dream her stressed-out brain had cooked up.
That had to have been a dream, or an imagination?
Everything felt so blurred to her. Like trying to rember a movie she watched while half asleep. You know things happened, but the details keep slipping away like water through your fingers.
Maybe I’m just losing my mind.
And that was a real possibility at this point. After all, so many crazy things had happened this month alone.
From waking up in an actress’ body, being married to a psychopath, being hated by the public, to losing millions of dollars and watching her new mother slap her?
Well, having a ntal breakdown seed pretty reasonable at this point.
It had to just be a trauma response or whatever.
But then there was one tiny detail that still bothered her. One piece of the puzzle that just didn’t fit anywhere.
She still couldn’t understand nor rember how she got back to her room.
"I’m sure I went into the woods to confront him," she muttered. "Or did I not? Did I just co into the room straightaway? Did I imagine going into the woods?"
But then she clearly rembered storming out of the house, tearing off her heels, and running barefoot into those dark woods.
So how could she not piece the rest?
"Did I confront him or not?"
Her thoughts were tangled like headphone wires in a pocket, and the harder she tried to rember, the more they all made no sense.
At least not the sense she could accept.
Another nervous laugh escaped, and this one sounded slightly unhinged even to her own ears.
"God, I sound so crazy. I must actually be going crazy. Nothing makes sense."
Nah, she just had to have co back to her room sohow. Her head was just ssing with her.
There were all logical explanations. Much more logical than, ’I saw a wolf change into Lucas.’
And as if that was not enough, she had to dream about him too.
Ell.
Her chest tightened as the dream she had last night ca back to her.
She hadn’t dread about him in years. It was weird that she was getting those dreams back again.
Ugh. Now I can’t help but wonder how he’s doing now. He never even contacted since then. I hope he didn’t get caught by those people.
She shook her head to get that out because Ell wasn’t the point right now.
She might be running mad, and she couldn’t be dwelling on a childish first love that might even be dead.
She might get thrown in a psychiatric hospital anyti soon. And honestly, she felt like it might be needed.
A soft knock on the door made her jump so hard that she nearly fell off the bed.
"Uh... co in." She called out, her voice coming out more parched than she expected.
Callis entered quietly while carrying a breakfast tray that slled amazing.
Toast, eggs, and coffee that might actually save her sanity.
"Good morning, Lorena." Callis set the tray on the bedside table with ease, and then her eyes swept over Mira as she took in the ssy hair, probably noticing the red mark on her cheek.
"I didn’t get to see much of you yesterday, and you even ended up coming back later than Lucas did. Where were you?"
Mira stiffened at the question. She hadn’t expected to be interrogated by Callis, but then, seeing how she was always concerned about her, it was plausible.
She wondered if she should tell her how she was feeling right now, how she felt like she was losing her mind and all.
"Uhm... I was just out," she said finally. "I needed so air before returning ho."
Callis’ eyes were unreadable as she studied Mira’s face, like she wished to ntion the red mark but was too polite to do so.
Mira, on the other hand, was still battling her sanity.
Should I just ask and call it a day? About wolves and all that?
But the words didn’t co out. She couldn’t allow them.
She’ll definitely think I’m insane. Hell, even I think I’m insane for blurring real life and dreams.
Callis seed to notice her battling within herself because she sat on the edge of the bed. "You know you can always trust , right? Whatever it is, you can just tell ..."
For a little mont, Mira almost did just that. She almost opened her mouth, but instead of any of those words coming out, she just shook her head, saying, "I’m fine, Callis. Really."
Callis clearly didn’t believe her but didn’t push it either.
"Well then, you should eat on ti. We’re going out today." She said in a gentle but firm tone that ant she was taking no for an answer.
"Going out?" Mira looked up, confused. "Where?"
But Callis was already heading for the door with a mysterious smile on her lips.
"It’s a surprise."
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