Trinity’s POV
I jolted awake with such violence that my entire body convulsed. The nightmare shattered around me like glass, replaced by the soft lighting of the guest room in Alpha Caelum’s palace. But the terror lingered, clinging to me like a second skin.
How could a dream feel so real? Or was it a dream?
Three pairs of eyes stared down at me, each of their faces etched with deep worry and fear.
Xerxes stood at the foot of the bed; his usual composed demeanor cracked with concern. Liam hovered near the window, his gray eyes dark with anxiety. And Nasir was on the bed beside me, his amber eyes wide and his face so close to mine that I could feel his breath on my cheek.
It was his hand over my mouth, I realized. His touch that had pulled me from the nightmare.
I jerked away from h
