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niggling feeling that she had forgotten something
very important.
    “ What is it?” she
muttered. “What have I forgotten?” Her eyes flew open
with a start. “Is it about my attack? Is that memory so
terrible?” So terrible that my mind had to block it out
forever to protect my sanity.
    Rebecca turned away from the
window. “It's better then,” she sighed, forcing her eyes
shut. “It is better to forget forever,” she sighed
heavily and sank deeper under her covers.
    The curtains moved and
fluttered in the shadows, even though the windows were closed.
Rebecca tossed and turned, her sleep fitful and her dreams troubling.
She was finding it difficult to breathe. Something didn't feel
right.
    Her skin felt sticky with
sweat, and the sheets tangled around her ankles when she tried to
kick them off. She struggled to open her eyes, but it felt as though
she was trapped in a nightmare. She could hear noises, footsteps and
a low, harsh laugh.
    Rebecca's entire body jerked.
She knew that laugh.
    She could feel cold sweat
beading on her forehead. She had to get out of here. She wanted to
scream, but her voice wouldn't work. Her eyelids were jumping
violently as she thrashed in her bed. She had to wake the hell up
and get away!
    Finally, she forced her eyes
open with a gasp. Her cry was muffled as a huge hand clamped over
her mouth.
    She stared into a pair of
close-set, beady eyes as the sharp point of a knife pressed against
her throat.
    “ Hello, Rebecca, are you
glad to see me? I thought I'd pay my slutty ex-wife a visit, you
know, for old times' sake.” She heard the laugh, that ugly,
sadistic laugh. “And what do I find? I find the slut shacking
up with her bear lover!”
    Rebecca shook her head mutely,
numb with terror.
    “ Now, shall I kill you,
to torture him?” Phin smiled, dragging the blade across her
cheek. “Or shall I kill him, to torture you? Ah, decisions
decisions...”
     

CHAPTER
ELEVEN

    Levi checked the doors and the
windows again. Everything was locked. There was no way her scumbag
human ex-husband could get in. He glanced towards her bedroom door.
Rebecca should be asleep by now.
    He stretched his tall frame
out on the couch and tried to get comfortable. He was punching an
old, dusty cushion into shape when he heard a scream from Rebecca's
room.
    He jumped to his feet and was
in her room in a heartbeat.
    Rebecca was clutching her
pillow and crying out in terror. “He...he was here! Here,
right here!” she blubbered.
    “ What? Who?”
    “ Phin! Phin was here!”
she shrieked.
    Levi's eyes scanned every
corner of the room. He went to the window and checked it. It was
locked. He walked silently to the windowless bathroom and looked
around. There was no one hiding in there. Methodically,
soundlessly, he went through every corner of her room, checking all
the cupboards and drawers, and even under the bed. He found nothing.
    Rebecca was still screaming
and babbling hysterically, “I saw him, Phin...he was here...he
had a knife. A knife!”
    Levi approached her very
slowly and carefully as he would a wounded animal. “Rebecca,
calm down,” he said as gently as he could. “Shhh, it's
all right. You had a nightmare. That's all. No one is here. Phin
Lester isn't here. He couldn't have gotten into your room. Your
window is locked. There are no windows in your bathroom. And he
couldn't have walked through your bedroom door. Not without getting
past me. I would never let him get past. You know that.”
    “ No! No! He was here!”
she screamed, tearing at her hair. “He...he pointed a knife at
me. At my throat! He's been watching me! He saw. He saw us,
Levi!”
    Levi took a small step towards
her. “What do you mean?”
    “ He saw us.” She
looked stricken. “He saw us...kissing, touching...he saw my
body...” Her voice dropped to a whisper. “He saw me
half naked...and...he saw...everything...” She was shaking her
head, her eyes growing wild with horror.
    Levi shook his head.