MARIA'S POV
As Connor urged me to lay back down and go back to sleep, his words were slowly healing my frazzled nerves.
I was now stiffened. I stiffened my shoulder which he held, as I didn't want to go back to sleep, due to the fear that was still lingering in me.
"Maria, you have to sleep. Even though I don't know what time it is yet, I do know that we still have several hours left before the day brakes and you can't remain sitting like this until it is morning," Connor said to me, and I shook my head quickly, declining his request.
I didn't want to sleep, it felt like falling back asleep was going to make me go back to the horrible dream and I didn't want that to happen. That experience was something that I tried to escape with everything in me.
"Maria, you are obviously stressed
