[Heather]
When I opened my eyes, Richard was lying next to me, watching me. It made me embarrassed. No one watched me sleep before. I tried to straighten out my hair. It was a bit of a tangled mess.
He reached out and stopped my hand. He pulled it to his lips and kissed it gently, then rubbed his face against it. It reminded me of when we met in the last loop. After kissing my hand that day, he looked like he was straining with something. It wasn’t something I would have recognized at the time, but now I knew him. I realized that was when he was in control of himself.
“How many loops have you been here for?” I asked.
“This is my third. I didn’t know how it worked the first time, so I couldn’t go find you when Gwyn was first reported in Bellamy’s territory. I’m sorry. My dream self t
