Chapter 36

RAE

Vickie didn’t react to my revelation. Her gaze remained on me, unflinching, unforgiving. She was showing her Montgomery backbone.Vickie had steamrolled me enough times for me to know that I wouldn’t get out of this one so easily.

“I haven’t been sleeping,” I revealed.

Sitting across from her felt like an appointment with Doctor Whitman. There was the same wall between us that shouldn’t have been there with Vickie.

“The nightmares?” she asked.

Vickie had seen them herself when she’d slept over.

“Not just that. I’ve been sleepwalking for months. I wake up naked in the middle of the park and I never know if I’ve done something…”

Vickie’s eyes softened again as she brought her hand to her mouth.

“Months? And you never told me?”

“I didn’t want to worry you. You do so much for me already,” I said quietly, lowering my gaze.

“So rather than just talk to me, you told me to ‘go back to my privileged life’?”

There was steel in her voice. My sixth sense was buzzing with her disappointment, an