Chapter 64 SLEEPLESS

I dreamt about dying. That I was running in the field and policemen were chasing me, calling me to stop. I ran, but the faster I ran, the closer they got to me. Then I saw Sarah. She was standing right behind a tree, and she was frowning at me, an expression she carries on her face when she wasn't happy with me.

I stopped and stared back at her, afraid to draw close to her. She seemed strange, different, a ghost of her former self. She stretched out her hand to hold me, but for some reason, I drew back again.

"Don't you love me?" she asked.

"I love you," I said. "Come back to me, Sarah. I love you."

"Then hold my hand," she said.

I hesitated again.

"Come, my love," she said. "I won't harm you. I love you."

I stretched my hand and held her hand.

"That's lovely. Now I know that you love me, and you would avenge my death."

Then her face turned into Talatu's face, my former girlfriend who jilted me to marry the doctor. She had longs hairs that had the heads of snakes at their end.

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