Page 111 of Bosse
Had he not slept?
Time to girl up and tell him what she’d seen about Rez and Magdelina. Lifting her head from his chest, she said, “I’m trying to wake up.”
“You slept soundly.” His hand had moved from her back to her shoulder, gently working the muscles.
“Keep that up, and I’ll probably pass out.”
That stilled his hand.
She laughed. “You aren’t doing anything wrong. I’m just exhausted from so little sleep and working around this place. Then you turned me into a limp noodle. I’d love some tea, but we don’t have room service in this dive.”
Eyes alight with humor, he put his hand back on her shoulder. “You say funny things. What is this room service?”
That’s right. He grew up in an awful pack in the woods, then lived as a caged animal in a pretend-medieval world. He had not been exposed to many modern features. “It’s something guests enjoy in a nice hotel, where people stay for a day or more while traveling. You can call to request a meal and drinks be sent to your room.”
“Sounds lazy. I’d rather stay at home and eat a cooked meal.”
Just that easily, he made staying at home sound ten times better than traveling. She couldn’t stall much longer. “I did dream.”
His face went from lighthearted to focused in three seconds. “Good news?”
“I think so. It’s odd because I used to only dream in advance when I was younger. Generally, I dream in real time these days, but I saw where Magdelina and Rez are traveling to in a day or two, not where they are right now.”
Bosse listened intently, looking away for a moment, then back. “You think we can find this place?”
How do I answer him without lying about it not being us?“I think someone here knows where it is. If Krol is traveling to another spot first, then ending up at these ancient ruins, it feels like he can’t be traveling out of the country on the first leg of his trip.”
“A wagon?” Bosse stepped away from the bed as if needing to pace.
“Yes, he’s got the women in one decorated to look like a gypsy merchant wagon. It appears he’s keeping the wagon on dirt roads, which means he’s avoiding highways.”
“That makes sense.” Pausing to stare at nothing meant Bosse was thinking again. “How sure are you about what you saw?”
She considered several replies and dismissed all of them.
The best way to convince him was by giving him all she knew. “You were in this location. I saw you for just a moment before it all ended, but you were there. I dreamed in the first two weeks here that you would save Rez, but I had not known it would be somewhere other than this castle. I also saw you step in to stop a threat from getting to her. Maybe that’s how she gets away. Even when you left, I couldn’t shake the feeling that you might still return to save Rez.”
Bosse had angled his body to face her, not breaking eye contact. “When did you first dream of me saving Rez?”
Yay! He believed her. She jumped up and realized she had not dressed. With her back to him, she pulled her shirt and skirt on while explaining, “It was about a week before I finally came up with a way to get into your cage with no one watching.” That took a load of pressure off her chest.
Silence pulled her around as she finished buttoning her shirt.
This version of a quiet Bosse began to worry her.
What was going on in his mind?
Feeling suddenly nervous, she kept talking. “I’m surprised I did not dream of Magdelina before now, but she connected to me in this last dream. That’s how I figured out what was going on. She told me to trust my gift. That woman has a buttload of power compared to mine. Her energy is even more intense than my mother’s. It’s hard to put into words. She’s something called a Gallize.”
That surprised him out of his silence. “How do you know this? I was told that Gallize is a big secret I could not talk about.”
He knew about Gallize? Okay, that was unexpected. “It’s strange. Magdelina held my hands to give me a message for her mate that could not be written down but instead stayed in my head. She thinks I’ll see her mate. I told her I doubted that would happen. I haven’t seen any of that in a dream, but I wanted to help her if I could.”
“Like you want to help Rez.”
Concern churned in her gut at the way he’d said that. “Yes, I told you that’s why I let Krol’s men bring me to this castle. Rez is our clan’s leader. She was also my mother’s best friend.”
“This is the first time you told me you had a dream that showed me saving Rez.”
