Olivia sprang up from the bed drenched in cold sweat, her hair sticking to her face.
She just had the worst episode of her nightmare to date.
Checking the clock, she felt helpless when it registered to her that she was just asleep for twenty minutes, yet it felt as if she was stuck in her nightmare for a full night.
She felt every second of fear she experienced in that dream, including the throbbing in her nose from hitting a step in the flight of stairs, and the pain of rolling down it.
Her hand flew to her chest where her heart was drumming in a painful rhythm, she swore she could hear it in her ears.
For years, she ignored her nightmares, charging it to her subconsciousness taking over her brain activity while she's asleep. However, for almost two months after her rhinoplasty surgery, what she thought was some harmless nightmare was in fact a can of worms.
