Page 140 of Valentino

“Yeah?” I frown. “Exactly the same dream.”

“What…sexual or?”

“I wish it was fucking sexual.” I walk in and sit at his desk. “It’s horrific, I wake up in a sweat.”

His eyes linger on my face as he listens. “A nightmare.”

“Uh-huh.”

“Is the Grim Reaper coming to get us all?”

I chuckle. “I hope so. It’s going to have more fun where he’ll take us.”

“Don’t sweat it,” Romeo says as he goes back to his email. “You’ve had a lot on, I don’t think it’s anything to worry about.”

“It’s just…so real…you know?” I get a vision of holding the gun to Anna’s head and my blood runs cold.

“What is?” Enrico asks as he walks in.

“Val keeps having the same dream over and over.”

“Is she good?” Rico smirks.

“I wish it was like that.” I sigh.

“The same things happen in different ways or?”

“Exactly the same thing, exactly the same dream. It starts at the same place and ends at the same place, again, and again. If I wake up before it ends, when I go back to sleep it starts at exactly that point again. It’s beginning to freak me out.”

“Probably a premonition,” Rico replies dryly.

“It’s not a premonition,” I snap, annoyed.

It couldn’t be….

“How long you been having it?”

“A few days….”

The few days she’s been in my arms.

“Every night you’ve had this dream?”

“Pretty much.”

“Yeah….” Rico shrugs. “In my professional opinion…you’re fucked.”

“Good to know.” I laugh. “We’re going for coffee.”

“Coming.”

“I’ll be by the elevator.”

ANNA

I save the file and open the spreadsheet. Knock, knock sounds at my office door.

I glance up. “Valentino.”