(Lena)
I woke up later than usual.
The alarm had gone off and I had turned it off and lain there for another twenty minutes because my body was not ready to start the day and my mind was already too far into something to be interrupted by a schedule.
The dream was still with me.
Not as vividly as it had been in the middle of the night when I had woken up with my heart going and the room dark around me. But it was still there underneath everything, the way certain things stayed in the body even after the mind had moved on to something else. A warmth that had no business being there at seven in the morning when I needed to get up and behave like a professional person with a professional life.
I got up and got dressed and went downstairs.
Brad was already gone. His car wasn't in the dri
