Chapter 214 - The Dream (1/2)

While Robert was having a good look at the house just to make sure everything was fine and the places that would require much security, Jessica was in the room with Rachel. After checking on everything he came back to Rachel's room and sat next to her, he looked at Jessica and nodded who got the signal that she was supposed to leave the room so she got up from her seat and whispered ”I am off to bed then” and without waiting for her reaction he just left.

Robert was about to lie next to her when she suddenly started cooking herself up as if she was in pain at first the reaction was only seen on her face and then she actually groaned in pain ”Aaahhhaa no, no,  please sto-op sto-op it.” she coiled into herself completely.

Robert began to panic as it all happened in a few seconds, he quickly jumped on the bed next to Rachel and pulled her close to his chest, gently shaking her to wake her up. Rachel woke up, she felt like she was pulled out of a spell, tears were streaming down her eyes and she was panting heavily totally covered in sweat. Robert hugged her into his  chest until her breathing somehow normalised when finally Robert pulled back a little ”I will bring some water.”

He stood up to leave when he felt  abandoned on his wrist then a soft voice slowly whispered ”Please don't leave me alone.”

He looked back, he was shocked and then a smile spread across his face realising that the woman who never showed her weakness even to Kevin trused him enough to show him her weakness. He realized that Rachel was connected to him deeply from the core of her heart but the surface of her heart was so scarred for her to realize her feelings. He just hugged her tightly deciding to give her as much time as she required when she spoke herself softly and scared ”I had a dream that Kevin was torturing me the way he did but the worst part it, I could feel the pain and my body is actually hurting.”

There was a silence for a long time when Rachel looked at his face to see his reaction, it had lost all it's colour and although he looked calm, she could feel there was something she was missing so she looked at him with pitiful eyes and asked ”What is it?”

He was pulled out of his thoughts and he looked at her pitiful face, his heart clenched, he could not bring himself to tell her the truth so he just smiled at her ”It will be fine, if you don't mind I can hug you to sleep and I won't take it the wrong way I promise.” he added the last part of the sentence very earnestly to make her feel at ease.

She smiled at him and cuddled into his arms which he took as yes and lay next to her pulling her closer to his chest calming each nerve of her body and the rest of the night she slept peacefully.

In the morning Robert was up before Rachel and he knew Jessica also use from wake up early so he called her in the room. As she came she was the first one to speak ”According to the plan, I changed everyone's memories last night and now just Rachel has to tell her parents about us.”

Robert said ”Good” but Jessica saw that he was worried ,there were lines on his forehead as he was in his deep thoughts and he was still hugging Rachel very tightly as if preventing her from something that was going to hurt her.

She placed a hand on his shoulder and whispered not to wake Rachel up ”What is it?”

He was pulled out of his thoughts ”Protective bubble”

He wanted to talk to Jessica about this but he didn't want Rachel to hear anything if she woke up in the middle of their conversation so he asked her to build a protective bubble, it was used to make private conversations which only the people in the bubble could hear and the people outside could not so Jessica took out her wand and built an invisible protective bubble around them and then she was about to ask again but Robert spoke first ”I think Kevin was successful in making a connection with her brain, not a very strong one but enough to torture her.”

Jessica stumbled in her place, her eyes widened in shock ”WHAT!”

Robert closed his eyes for a few seconds and upon opening them he told her about Rachel's dream.