Chapter Twenty-Seven
Mia woke up the next morning with a nagging feeling of unease in her chest. For some reason, she kept dreaming about Saret and that day in the lab. In her dream, Saret was touching her, making her skin crawl with disgust, and there was nothing Mia could do about it other than scream silently in her head because she was paralyzed and unable to move.
Too wired to sleep more, Mia got up and went to take a shower. Korum was away somewhere, and Mia didn’t know if her family was still sleeping or not. From the sun’s position outside, it had to be very early in the morning.
Standing under the water spray, she yawned, feeling unusually tired. Maybe she shouldn’t have gotten up yet. The stupid dream was still on her mind, and she scrubbed her skin thoroughly, trying to wash
