~~~Dominic
I jolted upright, chest heaving, drenched in sweat.
My shirt clung to me like a second skin, soaked through, and my heartbeat pounded like war drums in my ears. For a moment, I couldn’t tell if I was still dreaming or if I’d finally woken up.
But the silence told me the truth.
The dream again.
No—the nightmare.
It had been haunting me for over a week now, ever since that damn hunch started creeping into my thoughts. The possibility that Emily might actually be my mate.
It was always the same. Always that cursed forest.
The trees loomed high above me, ancient and whispering. Mist clung to the ground, cold and damp around my boots. And I was running. Chasing. Desperate.
Ahead of me, she would appear.
Red hair blazing like wildfire in the darkness, darting between trees l
