CH. 158

“NO!” Serena jolted awake with a choked gasp. Her slender frame was drenched in a cold sweat as the remnants of her vivid dream clung to her like a suffocating shroud.

Tears streaked her flushed cheeks, the salty tracks still damp against her skin as she blinked rapidly in an effort to clear her blurred vision.

The silk sheets tangled around her legs like a physical manifestation of the turmoil that had plagued her restless sleep.

The weight of Enzo's dark revelation seemed to have followed her into the realm of slumber, tormenting her with flashes of a life she couldn't consciously remember - but one that felt achingly, undeniably familiar.

She had dreamed of a love so profound, so all-consuming, that it transcended lifetimes and worlds. A bond between a fallen angel and a mere mortal woman, one of such sacred intensity that it shattered the boundaries between the divine and the damned.

And yet, she had also dreamed of betraying that transcendent connection in an act of unconscionable