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had chosen good over evil. He was happy. This isn’t possible, she told herself again, and felt her body begin to sway. She forced oxygen into her lungs. She couldn’t pass out now; Murry would take Ben if she didn’t stop him.
    She forced herself to move closer to him. Even though she knew he was right about the gun not hurting him, it made her feel better to keep it pointed at his groin. Hopefully, if she got trigger happy, it would at least injure him. She was confident she could catch Ben if things went in that direction. She circled around him so the bright moon would be at her back and she could see him more clearly.
    “Rhyan, Murry is here. I could really use your help. If it’s possible for him to be here, then they should allow you to stop in and help me out. At least tell me what to do. I can’t do this on my own,” she thought nervously. She took a deep breath and fought back the tears as the familiar pop was not heard. “Please,” she pleaded aloud and the tears began to flow faster as panic consumed her.
    “Aw, are we missing someone, Kendra?” He made a poor and exaggerated attempt of a shocked expression. Then it changed. A gloating smile spread across his face, and Kendra’s heart all but stopped in her chest. Something was wrong with Rhyan. There had to be something wrong or he would be here with her. There would have been no way he would have even let Murry touch Ben if there was nothing keeping him from coming.
    She gasped and began to choke. She couldn’t sense him in her mind. She could always feel him there with her. It wasn’t anything solid, just more of a comfort and security, but it was no longer there. Rhyan was no longer there.
    She had no choice but to lower the gun because she was full out hyperventilating. She bent at the waist, her palms grasping her knees as she struggled for air.
    Murry’s wicked laugh seemed distant and unimportant. How could he possibly know that anything had happened to Rhyan? Rhyan is in Heaven, and Murry is in…
    Her panicked breaths slowed drastically as she tried to wrap her mind around something so inconceivable. Her eyes shot up to look at Murry. He wasn’t laughing anymore, but his eyes were still sparkling with silent amusement.
    “It isn’t true!” she screamed at him, but he only nodded with a smile. “It isn’t true! You liar! It isn’t…It isn’t true.” She fell to the floor and sobbed. “Why—why, Rhyan?” There was no answer, and that only confirmed her fear a little more.
    She looked back up to question Murry further, but he was gone. He was gone and Ben was gone with him. She opened her mouth and screamed.
    ~ ~ ~
    “Kendra! Kendra! Wake up, baby!” Adam shouted as he shook Kendra from her nightmare, but when she opened her eyes she began swinging her arms and kicking him. He took his chance and pinned her to the bed with the weight of his body. Her screaming and fighting subsided, but was quickly replaced with heavy crying. “Shhh…it’s okay. It was only a dream, baby. You’re in the bed with me and you’re fine.” He framed her face with his hands and wiped her tears with his thumbs. “Look at me,” he said, then kissed her lips gently. He sighed. “It was only a dream,” he said, but her eyes were wild and disbelieving.
    “Ben,” Kendra said, and shoved at Adam until he let her free. She raced through the door and down the hall, and didn’t stop as she flew through the open doorway of Benjamin’s nursery. Her heart gave a little leap when she noticed Ben lying on his back, staring up at the circling animals on the mobile above his crib.
    She swept him up in her arms, squeezing him maybe a little too tightly, but he didn’t cry, so she just kept him compressed to her chest, and rocked him as she cried.
    She heard Adam clear his throat before she felt him touch the small of her back with his fingers. She didn’t jump, so he encased both her and Ben in his arms from behind her.
    “I take it the nightmare