Reborn Luna (Hope and Keith) novel Chapter 23

15. The same nightmare 2

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15. The same nightmare–2

“Sure.” I let out a sigh of relief.

Finally I’m getting away from him.

My finger tips touch the door when Kieth says, “Wait. I want you here,” Keith says without looking at me.

Emma glances between us, sensing the tension. “Up on the table,” she says to Keith.

He hops up and locks eyes with me.

I want to leave but then I think about his sickness. This could be my one chance to find out what’s going on.

This time we’re different, my wolf reminds me.

She’s right. I have to be different this time and maybe I can do and put where it all went wrong and why I was framed.

I sit on the bench by the window, arms crossed. I don’t speak. Emma’s eyes clash with mine and she raises a questioning brow to which I shrug my shoulders.

Emma starts the exam. She checks everything–pulse, heart rate, reflexes, pupils. She even draws blood.

“You’re in excellent shape,” she says finally. “Actually, you’re healthier than ninety–nine percent of werewolves I’ve seen. But I see what you mean about your beasts.”

Beasts? As in plural?

“I want to know what’s happening to them. At times it feels like they’re one being and others they are separate, like they always were.”

Emma puts her clipboard down. “Has anything changed recently?”

He takes a breath and his fingers tap against his knee. Its a tell that he’s nervous.

“Ever since I turned eighteen, I’ve had the same nightmare every night without fail.”

Emma leans forward. “Can you describe this dream to me?”

“There’s a cliff and a girl’s falling. Plummeting to her death. I never see her face. But I know her, somehow. She important to me and my wolf. I always try to reach her, but I can’t. She disappears into the fog before she hits the rocks, and with her part of me dies.”

I freeze.

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My heart rate spikes, punching against my ribs like it’s trying to break free.

He’s dreaming of my death. The death that lead me here.

It has to be related somehow.

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Keith continues. “Every time I wake up, I’m drenched in sweat. My chest hurts. My heart feels like it’s being crushed. And my wolf,” he shoots me a quick glance before deciding to continue, “and my Lycan gets so riled it’s like I need to be searching for something…”

My throat goes dry.

He has both beings inside him?

That explains his strength.

Could that also have something to do with why I was targeted?

“That’s when it happened for the first time,” Keith says.

“When what happened?” Emma asks.

“When my wolf and Lycan merged.”

Merged? Emma repeated.” They became one being?”

“Yes. It was shortly after the dreams started happening. I couldn’t shake the sadness,” he adds, quieter now. “It stuck with me and then my beast converged and became one. One being. One mind. One spirit.”

“I’m guessing they are not that way now,” Emma says.

“No. It happens on and off. I think it’s connected to dreams but it could be completely unrelated.”

Emma nods slowly, her eyes darting up to me as she takes notes. “And this has been happening since you were eighteen?”

“Yes.”

“What do you think it means?”

I can tell Emma wants to look at me but she won’t risk alert Keith to our secret. To my secret.

It doesn’t take a genius to put together timelines. Kieth is 21, which means his dreams began three years ago. The same amount of time she suspects I’ve been inside the waking

memory.

I can’t say I disagree with her train of thinking.

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But I stay quiet.

What if he’s like me. Or similar to it.

What if his memory walked and only remembers part of his past.

What if it wasn’t a memory and we’ve been reborn for another reason.

There is no way to tell yet.

I think of my own sessions with Emma that have yet to happen.

I keep my face neutral. Not letting on the war of emotions inside me.

Because if he is reborn… and he doesn’t know it fully yet…

Then I can’t be the one to tell him.

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“I’m going to need further testing to be sure. What concerns me is the dream’s collision with your beast’s behavior. Your family carries Lycan blood. With it comes aspects of your development that may deviate from what we’re used to. To add onto that, you seem to have more Lycan blood then any of your ancestors if your metaphysical soul was able to develop another form.” She puts her clipboard down. “I’m going to have to contact a college of mine for some more information.”

“I see,” Keith’s face is contemplative. “What are the chances it’s just a dream? Maybe a stress response. I’m Alpha of a large pack and carry strong blood lines on veins. That would cause anyone stress, don’t you think?

I speak up for the first time, feeling compelled to ease some of the worry I can hear in his voice. “That’s not a small burden. You’re right. But I think what Emma is trying to figure out is how these dreams and the things happening with your beasts are related.”

Emma nods.

Keith claps his hands. “So what’s the next step?”

Emma examines Kieth, his eye dilating in a way that tells me she’s using her power. “There’s nothing physically wrong with you. But I’ll want to run a few more tests to check the state of you metaphysical bond and neurological center.”

He nods. “Alright, how are we going to do that?”

“I’d like to start with hypnotherapy.”

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