Chapter Five
SHE STILL HADN’T CRIED. Two months and no tears. At least Haylio didn’t look at her so strangely anymore. Things had returned to normal. As normal as they could with the glaring hole in their lives.
And the dreams.
Those she had not mentioned to her counselor or her brother. It was too private, too intimate to share with a near stranger. After four appointments Reina had judged herself well enough to stop attending, and the counselor hadn’t fought her on it. Haylio probably wouldn’t like it, but what he didn’t know couldn’t disappoint him.
Things were normal. She went to her job every morning and ate lunch in the small park down the street every afternoon. Some days Haylio joined her when he could sneak away from his responsibilities at the school where he taught. And some
