Ashfall: A Wife's Forbidden Stand
She looked at me, lips moving, but no words came out.
"Why did you ask to see me?" I broke the silence, my voice icy.
She lowered her head, fingers tracing the tabletop. After a long pause, she said, "I had a dream… In it, we went back to the night of the eruption. You dragged me to Grandpa and forced him to leave. Everyone survived, including Adam."
"And then?" I smiled faintly before continuing in a calm but sharp tone, "I've had that dream too. In mine, Adam still found out he was terminally ill.