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As soon as I close my eyes, I’m pulled under and let the darkness consume me.
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“Ringer!” a female voice screams, her voice muffled like she's inside a box or something. I look around and realize I’m in the front of Lilah’s bakery, working on retiling the entire dining room.
“Emmett!” the voice calls.
Where is it coming from? I search my surroundings and come up empty.
“Ringer, please!” the voice cries.
I stand up from my spot on the floor and push through the swinging door to the kitchen. The sight brings me to my knees. Lilah is on the floor with her entire body in flames. I drop to my knees and crawl to her. The kitchen is on fire. Why isn’t it hot?
I crawl through the flames and come to a stop next to her ash-covered body. I run my hands all over her skin, trying to put the fire out. I even hit her skin in an attempt to suffocate the fire. I scream as tears stream down Lilah’s face.
“Ringer!” Lilah screams, but her lips don’t move with the noise.
Why isn’t her skin hot?
I blink, and Lilah is gone. I’m at the clubhouse now, and something is tight against my neck. When I look down, I realize I’m in a suit.
Everyone around me is dressed in nice clothes, and there are chairs set up, split down the middle by a soft, red carpet.
Ghost, my dad, and Flame are standing at the end of the aisle on one side. I walk towards them, and they all smile at me. What the hell? Why are they just standing there?
Lyric, Brenna, and Pebbles are on the other side of the aisle, smiling at me too.
Then, the most beautiful sight of Lilah in a white dress walks slowly toward me. Just before she reaches me, her entire body goes up in flames, and she drops to the floor, screaming. How is this happening, and why isn't her face moving?
“Emmett, please! Please! Please!”
I drop down to her side and cradle her burning body to my chest, chanting to her how much I love her.
“Emmett, I love you! Wake up!”
Wake up? I’m not sleeping. How could I be sleeping when the love of my life is burning alive?
Freezing cold ice water douses my face, and I jackknife up in bed to find Lilah standing above me with one small foot on each side of my thighs.
“What the fuck, babe!”
“You wouldn’t fucking wake up! You were scaring me!” she huffs, dropping onto my naked lap. I hold her half-naked body against my now soaking chest.
She pulls her face away from mine, and I can clearly see the tear tracks lining her face. Come to think of it, my fucking eyes burn too.
“What happened?”
“You tell me! You woke me up thrashing all over the bed and screaming.”
“Screaming?”
Lilah wipes the tears from her cheeks. “You were screaming that you had to save me and that you loved me.”
I shake my head, the images of my nightmares hitting me like a cement brick. “I was having a nightmare that your whole body was burning at the bakery. I couldn’t save you.”
“I wasn’t even there when the fire was happening.”
I grip her thighs tightly and pull her into me, not allowing one square inch of space between us.
