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Chapter 244

Author: Lean
Sydney must have been dreaming. Her brows drew together in unease, fingers clutching the car's door handle so tightly her knuckles whitened. Strands of black hair fell across her lips as she murmured softly, almost inaudibly.

Seeing her trapped in a nightmare, Caleb felt an instinctive urge to protect her. He leaned closer and lifted his hand as if to draw her into his embrace.

The instant his fingers brushed her shoulder, she flinched violently and jerked awake.

"Jules!" The word escaped before she could stop it.

'Jules…' She had dreamt that Julian had stormed into that dilapidated factory to save her. Then the bomb exploded, tearing the world apart around them.

Her chest rose and fell in a panicked rhythm. Blinking through the haze of sleep, she glanced around in a daze before realizing she was still in the car.

The car had stopped. But not at Haven.

Caleb heard her cry another man's name in her sleep, and the weight of his failure as a husband pressed down even harder.

He re
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