"If I was able to manipulate your dreams, then do you think I wouldn't be able to read your mind?" The woman smiled, her sharp black eyes piercing through my chest and into the bed below me. It hurt. It felt as if I was bleeding out, but I was unable to do anything.
"Then what do you want from me?" I requested, but this woman was just so fucking unreadable that I could barely even figure out if her calm expression right now was real or not. Was she excited beneath? Angry with me for something in our past lives? Sad about something in our past lives? There were so many potential possibilities that I could hardly keep my cool.
"I want to help you," She simply replied. My face crumpled with confusion as she continued to smile. "We're partners now, right? I thought I should help you out so we can work together. I got a little headstart in this world, but you… you can still go further than me. I just know it."
