Flashback ( PDFDrive )

kicked free and crawled up and out.
Back to the light.
Not caring that her head was pounding and her hand was aching or
that something strong and heavy was holding her down.
Because two silver-flecked eyes were staring into hers, filled with
such horror and anguish it stole the air from her lungs.
“What happened?” Tam whispered, reaching a shaky hand up to
tug on his sweat-soaked bangs. Linh tightened her grip on his
shoulders, but it didn’t ease his trembling. “One second you were
there. And then you just . . . weren’t. And I didn’t know how to wake
you up.”
She swallowed hard, trying to find her voice. “I know. I’m sorry.”
“But what happened?” Tam repeated. “What did I do wrong?”
She shook her head, wincing from the headache. “It wasn’t you. I
had the same nightmare before.”
And that’s all it was, she told herself.
Just a nightmare.
Not even the scariest one she’d ever had.
But Magnate Leto said, “That was more than a nightmare.”
And she couldn’t bring herself to ask.
Edaline did it for her. “What was it?”
He turned, staring at the shimmering walls and trailing a hand over
his greasy hair. “I have no idea.”
Definitely not what Sophie wanted to hear.
The weight pinning her shoulders lifted, and Elwin stepped from
behind her, snapping his fingers and forming a strange sphere of light
around her whole body—thicker than the others, layered with rings of
every color.