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“Not a lot. Braxton mentioned something about it to me. This can’t be that, though.”
“Why not?”
“Because he’s the alpha,” I said. “He’s big and powerful, and he has this whole world to command, and I’m just… me. This little rabbit who didn’t know about this life until recently, who had to be bought because of how different I am. I’m notthat.”
Even if a fated mate was something I would have loved to have been to Braxton, a powerful alpha like him deserved a powerful mate.
Uma shook her head, but she didn’t counter my statement.
“I’m having dreams,” I said. “About Braxton. About usbeingtogether.” When I glanced at Uma, she didn’t look like she was going to laugh at me. She looked serious. “And then it changes.”
“Into what?”
“I don’t know. Darkness. A war or something.”
Uma frowned, concerned. “How often have you had this dream?”
“Often,” I said. “Maybe four times already. Five? Something like that.”
“When did they start?”
“A while ago,” I said, not mentioning that it had been since Braxton and I had been together in the forest a while ago. “I don’t know what it means.”
“You have unique powers that will unlock as you learn about yourself and your rabbit,” Uma said. “Dreams and visions might be a part of that.”
“It wasn’t a vision,” I said.
“Are you sure?”
“It can’t be, with all that darkness. That isn’t even real.”
Uma pursed her lips before she stuffed the food into her mouth.
“Is it?” I asked, suddenly scared. “Uma, is it real?”
“There’s a lot of darkness out there,” Uma said. “More than you should ever have to know about, but you’re tangled up with Braxton, so you might come closer to it than you mean to.”
“Why?” I asked. “What does that mean?”
“Yeah, you know the demons I was talking about? They’re not just a saying, like skeletons in a closet. I was serious. Braxton has demons haunting him, and in your dreams, if they’re catching up…”
“It’s not real,” I said, but my body had run cold with fear.
“Let’s hope it isn’t,” Uma said, but her face was serious, and the atmosphere had changed, becoming even more chilly.
Not for the first time, I’d hoped that I was stuck in some kind of dream with all of this. Sometimes, like when I’d been with Braxton, it was a dream I’d hoped I would never wake up from, but most of the time, I was just waiting to wake up.
“Tell me when you have it again, okay?” Uma said.
I nodded. “I will.”
“And reach out to Braxton if he won’t reach out to you. He’s not as untouchable as you think.”
I wasn’t sure she was right, but maybe I would do that. I wanted to talk to him again. I wanted to know what was going on, what he wanted with me, and why I was still here if he wasn’t coming to see me anymore.
Uma was wrong about us being fated mates, though. It just couldn’t be. Everything else, I was sure she was right about, and when I thought about the darkness again, a cold finger dragged its way down my spine before a feeling of dread settled in my stomach.
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