Chapter 30: The Test
The voided contract lay on Luna’s table, a silent, powerful magnet. For two days, Dream tried to live in the freedom it represented. She stayed with Luna, visited her father (now jubilant and planning lawsuits) and her mother (who watched her with knowing, quiet eyes). She tried to feel the relief, the lightness of a sentence commuted.
All she felt was untethered. Adrift.
The truth was, she wanted to see him. Not the furious titan, not the shattered man, not the penitent on TV. She wanted to see Tom. The man who had emerged in glimpses between the cracks—the brilliant strategist, the surprisingly dry wit, the vulnerable boy who loved his mother, the passionate man who had kissed her like she was the only truth in a world of lies.
She told herself she needed closure
