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Share with me your silent dreams and I’ll make you the moon in my universe

—Melody Lee--

CHAPTER ONE

An annoyingly consistent buzzing pulleddown the street I reached blindly towards ers over its surface until I found my cellphone

Rolling onto h squinted eyes an atteits created a nunored twice the day before

The caller showed as Unknown and located in California I considered sending whoever it was to voiceht back I wasn’t in thethe phone on speaker, too lazy to hold it to my ear

“Who is it?”

“Hello…is this, Catalina Haven?”

I don’t know if it was the sound of his voice that hadup a little more, or the fact he used my first and last name Either way, he’d captured my full attention

“Uh, yeah,” I cleared my throat, “This is she”

“Were you sleeping? Did I wake you?”

“It’s al, so what do you think?”

“Right” A slight pause, but no apology followed “This is Alaric Schuyler I’ about your sister”

“My…sister?” I questioned slowly

Another pause

“Catalina,” he stated ain, confidently this time “Jonathon Penn is your father, correct?”

Unfortunately “Yes”

“Then that makes you my wife’s sister”

His wife?

“Oh! You’re calling for Megan?”

He sighed, and I lad he wasn’t in front of ht I was an idiot Not to mention…

Shit, I’d forgotten Meg was even married I sat up a little taller and took hi okay?”

Of course, it wasn’t I already knew that Nothing good caht