“Don’t go, Deirdre.”

This was the first sentence Kyran typed after getting his phone.

Deirdre was dumbfounded for a moment. She did not know why he would say something like that.

“Go? I’ve always been here. I won’t leave your side.”

Kyran gazed deeply at Deirdre’s face, his eyes filled with despair. “I had a dream. In that dream, you chose to leave my side. You didn’t return to Alnwick but went to a place that I could not reach. I couldn't find you no matter how hard I tried to, and I had