Lana smiled, seeing Liam waiting for her in the visiting area of the review center. She excitedly walked towards him and hugged him tightly. How she missed his warmth all these days.

“Let’s get out of here…” she heard Liam whisper, and she nodded. They walked hand in hand outside the review center towards the open space parking lot where Liam had parked his car.

Liam opened the door for her, and Lana was about to get inside the car, but suddenly someone gripped her arm.

She turned and looked at who it was, but her eyes rounded in horror, seeing that man, the monster was standing there, grinning at her maliciously.

Lana’s eyes quickly moved to find Liam and her face paled seeing Liam was lying on the ground bathing in his own blood.

“What did you do to him?” she whispered, tears flowing out vigorously from her eyes.

“What else? Remove all those people who will do you no good from your life. Let’s go. You should go with me…” she heard that monster beamed with laughter like a maniac.

Lana moved and struggled hard to escape from his grip, and when she did, she immediately ran to Liam.

“Oh, God…” she cried hard as she held Liam in her arms.

“Please open your eyes,” She whispered several times.

“All that’s close to you… I will kill them all!” she heard the monster speak from behind.

“No!” Lana shouted.

That instant her body raised up as she opened her eyes. She was full of sweat, panting and crying. It was another nightmare that felt so real. She wiped the tears in her eyes as she tried to calm her still trembling body.

She grabbed her mobile phone and dialed Liam’s number. She was sobbing continuously and she could not control her emotions at that moment.

“Hello?” she heard Liam’s sluggish voice.

Liam was already asleep when he heard his mobile phone ringing. He sheepishly answered it, but hearing Lana’s sobbing made him rise from the bed that instant.

“Lana what’s going on? What’s wrong?” he worriedly asked and got out of the bed and grabbed one of his car keys that instant.

“Nothing, just a bad dream…” Lana whispered, trying her best to not stutter.

Lana was dying to say, “I need you with me…” but instead she lied and said, “I’m okay now. Just checking on you if you’re still awake.”

“Goodnight Liam.” she whispered before ending the call. She stayed awake and moved her knees so she could cuddle it as she sat on her bed. She put her head down on her knees and tried to calm herself down.

She tried to reminisce about all the wonderful memories in her mind, just as her psychiatrist had advised her to do, in case she experienced another bad dream that haunted her and took her emotions on a roll.

Minutes passed and she still could not sleep. She raised her hand and had to look at her mobile phone. She wanted to call Liam once more, but controlled herself from making that call and tried to bring her mind at rest by herself. She did not want Liam to get worried or bothered by her condition, just because she had a scary dream in the middle of the night.

She looked at the wall clock. It was past one in the morning already. Lana stood up to get some hot milk to help her sleep and sat on her table. She had already calmed herself to a great extent successfully, but still could not sleep.

Her therapy with her psychiatrist during leeway hours was helping her a lot in keeping her thoughts under control in such situations. She could already see a lot of improvement in herself by how fast she could calm herself compared to before.

An unknown fear was still there in her heart, but not as strong as before. Also, she could check the intensity of her emotional turmoil and not lose control of her conscious mind. She hoped she could overcome everything very soon and start living with a new perspective of life, where she would be a more confident woman completely compatible with Liam. Someone who could return his love with no worry and fear.

She sat there in deep thought for a long time, and soon an hour passed in her thoughts. She put the cup and cleaned it, then brushed her teeth. She did some inhaling and exhaling first before she walked towards her bed to go back to sleep when she heard a soft knocking on her door.

She creased her forehead and walked towards the door, wondering who it could be at such a late hour. Lana opened the door and her eyes widened seeing Liam was standing in front of her panting heavily as if he was running.

Liam quickly entered inside and grabbed her from her shoulders. He looked at her with worried eyes and checked her from head to toe before hugging her tightly in his arms.

“Are you really alright? Oh God, I thought, I’m going to die worrying about how you are doing here alone after that bad dream.” Liam whispered as he lovingly stroked her hair.

He knew he was overreacting, but he felt like dying hearing Lana sobbed like that, so he rushed towards the center immediately.

“How did you get in?” Lana asked as tears unconsciously fell down her eyes.

Liam gently pushed her to look at her face. He wiped the tears on her cheeks coming out from her eyes as he said, “I know the owner of this review center so I can actually go in and out easily.”

Liam pulled Lana to bed, and they both sat and leaned on the headrest. He put his arms on Lana so he could cuddle her.

Lana felt so overwhelmed with Liam’s sudden appearance.

“You’re still in your sleepwear.”

Liam chuckled and scratched his head, saying, “Yeah. You were crying on the phone and my heart was breaking hearing your aggrieved voice, I want to fly that instant to reach you, love. Tell me what happened.”

Lana told Liam about her scary dreams and also informed him when it started. She was about to tell him about it anyway after her therapy but then just as Drey had advised her, she should tell everything that was going on with her, first to her husband above anyone else, especially serious matters like those because Liam was already her better half.

Liam’s face darkened, hearing about the anonymous birthday card Lana received. How dare that person trigger Lana’s emotions? He would definitely not let it slide.

On the side note, he was very grateful that Lana opened up about something like that to him, as that really meant a lot for him.

He helped Lana to lie down while he cuddled her tightly. He let her keep her face on his chest.

“I’m here now, love. I will stay with you… Rest now.” Liam whispered while kissing Lana’s hair.