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Sofia.

3:47 AM

I jolted awake, gasping for air, hot tears ran down my face, my choked sobs and cries muffled with my palm.

Another nightmare.

It had been a few months since I had one that vivid. It felt like I relived it, the abuse, the starvation, the mental and verbal torture.

It was like the last two years away from them were just a dream that I conjured and that I was still stuck there.

My tears turned to soft sniffles and the light was turned on suddenly making me flinch from the bright light. I removed my arm that was shielding my eyes and peeked through my red-rimmed eyes to find Nikolai turning to me, sitting up.

He scanned my shaking form, worriedly and reached a hand to my face, I flinched away, squeezing my eyes shut.

"Kitten, open your beautiful eyes and look at me," his voice deep resonated with worry and a mere delicate whisper.

I shook my head ferociously cowering, a headache forming, my breathing coming in short pants, palms sweating as the flashbacks hit me like a to