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CHAPTER TWELVE
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Caitlin looked into Caleb’s eyes. As he stood there, she sensed that some part of him did recognize her, was trying so hard to remember.“It’s strange,” he said. “I dreamt of you last night. I hardly know you, yet somehow, I couldn’t shake the thought of you.”Caitlin’s heart soared with hope.“Do you remember me at all?” she asked.“Somehow…I feel like I do,” he said. “But…I just can’t recall. How do we know each other?”She paused, debating what to say. Would all of her words, all of her actions, as Aiden warned, now influence the future? What if she said the wrong thing?She decided to just tell him the truth. This was her moment. It was now or never.“We know each other in the future,” she said, her heart racing.Would he think she was crazy?Even as she said it, she wished she hadn’t. She worried if, by saying it, she somehow created a rip in time, told him something he wasn’t meant to know, affected how things would play out down the road.He furrowed his brow as he sta
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