CHAPTER 221

PRECIOUS

All eyes turned to me after my utterance. I could see the question in their eyes, which I was going to answer.

“Everything,” Michelle murmured. “Tell them everything.”

“What if they hate me for it?” I asked, scared of their reaction. I could have told them when those nightmares were coming but I chose to remain quiet about it.

“They'd be fools to,” Michelle snorted. “You are brave enough to have kept it bottled inside of you. If they can't see how good you are, then they don't deserve you.”

“What do you want to tell us?” Duke raised his eyebrow at me.

I let out a puff of air through my nose, wringing my hands in nervousness. They will not hate me. No one knows if this is even connected, I kept telling myself. So, I shared my first nightmare, and then went on to describe the one that involved Duke and what the duplicate Duke had said to me. There were many of them, but those were the ones I remembered. After I finished, an uncomfortable silence fell over us, each lost in