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The force pushes the air out of my lungs as I shout, “Kyle!”

With ragged breaths, he asks, “Who do you belong to, Ally?”

“I belong to you,” I whisper.

The heat on my neck compels me to turn and catch his lips. One small kiss and he thrusts as he says, “Who do you belong to?”

My stomach clenches as I come apart and he explodes into me. “I belong to you, Kyle!” I shout.

“Alyssa!” I hear. “Open your eyes!”

I open my eyes to see Eden looking down at me He quickly rolls off of me. “What the hell, Alyssa?” he asks, with an aggravated tone to his voice.

I sit up. “I was dreaming.”

“I thought you were awake,” Eden says. “I should’ve known you weren’t. You weren’t moving at all like yourself.”

Pulling the sheet up to cover my naked breasts, I ask, “What did I do?”

I completely remember the dream I was having. Only I thought it was real. I thought I was married to Kyle. Everything felt real. I can’t believe how real it all felt. Eden sits up, running his hands through his hair.

Oh, hell, I know what I did. He doesn’t have to tell me.

I reach out to him. “Eden, it was just a dream. Nothing to get upset about. Come on, let’s finish what we started.”

He pulls away from me, though. “No, Alyssa. We can’t finish what we started. I was apparently not involved in it. Now you want him, or what?”

“No!” I say. “I don’t know why I had that stupid dream, Eden. I do know I don’t want him like that. I really don’t. Maybe the ceremony has me sort of messed up, or being chased by jets and dogs has my mind going a different direction.”

Eden looks at me, his eyes full of hurt. “A different direction? Like a direction without me in it?”

“Maybe, but it doesn’t matter. I’m with you. It doesn’t matter what happens in my dreams. I love you and my future forever is with you, Eden. This is crazy to be fighting about a damn dream I can’t help.”

“I know it is. Let’s just go to sleep. We have to drive back to New Orleans in a few hours anyway,” he says as he lies back down.

I lie back. “I told Kyle we would stay here a while with them.”

“Well, I hope that was before the jet and the dogs, because if it was after them, then you are both not thinking straight,” he says.

I need to stop talking now. I am really making my husband mad and that is never good.

“I love you, Eden. Goodnight.”

“Goodnight, Alyssa,” he says, then pauses. “I love you too. Now go to sleep.”

I close my eyes and wonder why I was dreaming like that. I love my husband with all my heart. I love Kyle too, but not like the way I love Eden. I don’t want a day to go by without Eden in it.

What is wrong with me?

CHAPTER 62

KYLE

“You sure can eat now, Ally,” I say, as we leave a café, then walk down a sidewalk downtown.

“Kyle, be nice,” she says as she bats at my arm.

I reach out to touch her ample stomach. “How’s Junior treating you, Al?”