Olivia
I awoke with a start to find the soft blue moonlight streaming through the bedroom window. A soft sigh of relief slipped out as I fell back down onto the pillows.
“Still at home,” I whispered, wiping the beads of sweat off of my forehead with the back of my hand. “It was just a dream.”
Remembering the dream now as I lay there, I couldn’t help myself from shuddering. It had been a horrific nightmare; one involving flames, collapsing houses, and my children being nowhere to be found.
Out of instinct, I rolled over onto my side and began to reach for Nathan—only to discover that he wasn’t there.
“Right.” I rolled back onto my back and stared up at the ceiling again. He wasn’t here anymore, and hadn’t been for a while now.
It had been three days since I had kick
