More Mystery

JAVIER

I shook Mia hard and shook her again but she did not bulge. It was like she was in a coma, alive but unreachable, this scared me straight, I got out of bed and ran to Ivan’s room and woke him up with a shout.

Ivan awoke frowning, “What is it this time again?” The look on his face told me he already knew it was Mia-related.

By now, we are already used to this pattern, Mia has a hugely emotional moment, we try to console her, we end up making out, fall asleep, and then wake up to a shout.

It was the way things were around the penthouse now, neither of us could go to sleep and hope to wake up blissfully in the morning.

“Come, quick, it happened again, she woke up after thrashing around in bed, had a similar look to the one back at the warehouse, said some cryptic thing like ‘he’s coming,’ then fell back asleep, and now, she is refusing to wake up.” I gave him the cliff notes of everything that had happened.

Ivan got out of bed and followed me back and had his turn trying to wake h