“Baby, I’ve got you,” Lazarus whispered vehemently.“I’ve got you, Elisa.”
Even though his words brought a small measure of comfort, my hands were still shaking, my lungs still struggled to breathe, and I still felt like evil was licking at my feet.
“Lazarus...”I panted, words coming hard.
“I know, baby,” he said softly.“I know.”
Chapter 20
Lazarus~
Twenty minutes and two glasses of water later, Elisabeth seemed calmer, her hands no longer trembling, her breathing a steady rhythm that finally made me feel better.
“We need to talk about what just happened, baby,” I told her, though terrified of pushing her too far right now.
“I know,” she whispered quietly.
“My guess is that they obviously know that we’ve...that we’re together, and they must be panicking,” I stated unnecessarily.“Why else pull us in like that?”
Elisabeth gave me a small nod.“Since I haven’t had a dream like that in decades, I’d say that you’re right about them knowing.”
We were both in bed, but where Elisabeth was sitting up against the headboard, I was sitting on the mattress next to her, studying her for any aftereffects of what just happened.Having never woken up next to her after one of her dreams, I honestly didn’t know what to look for or do.
“I suspect that they knew it the first time, too,” I went on.“They just hadn’t been worried because we’d gone our separate ways after that.”
Her prism-colored gaze looked my way.“Did you know?That first night?Did you suspect?”
“Not really,” I hedged.“I...I knew that there was something different about you because at the age of forty-five, I’d never felt for another woman what I’d felt for you that night, and...well, whatever I’d been feeling that night, it had reminded me too much of Elisa.The connection...”I shook my head.“No, I didn’t know what was going on, but I knew that you were different.I knew thatwewere different.”
Setting my confession aside for a moment, she asked, “What did you mean when you said to only trust you?I mean...you have to know that there’s only one person whom I can trust blindly through all this, right?”
I nodded.“God.”
She nodded back.“God.”
“I don’t know, baby,” I sighed.“I think...maybe I just meant out of everyone in the dream.I’m honestly not sure.”
