Bella did not dare to shut her eyes. She feared that if she fell asleep she would sleepwalk once more to Charles’s room. She laid back on the pillow and pulled her head out from under the covers. She stared at the ceiling and tried to concentrate her thought.
After a while, her eyelids began to close. Keeping them open requires considerable effort. It was a matter of time before she fell asleep again.
Just a moment before she dozed off, an ethereal voice reached her ears. Someone had called her name. It sounded like Charles but she wasn’t one hundred percent sure. She looked around the room to make sure nobody was lurking in the shadows. What would she do if he had followed her here?
“Bell!”
There it was again and this time she was certain that it was Charles. She jumped up from the be
