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Maybe she didn’t want a bunch of seers watching her every move, 24/7, like she was some precious artifact.

Maybe she just wanted to be a little girl.

When Revik didn’t say anything for a few seconds more, I glanced at my wrist cuffed to the wall. I debated whether I wanted to get into it with him on the link, especially since there was a good chance we might be overheard by security.

Pretty much everything went through security these days.

“What were you dreaming about last night?” Revik asked, pulling me out of my own head. “You were restless for hours.”

I frowned, thinking, staring at the foot of the bed.

“Dubai,” I said, half-surprised at my own answer. “I was dreaming about Dubai.”

I heard him smile. “I know.”

I rolled my eyes. “Was I talking in my sleep again?”

The smile returned. “Yes.”

“But you’re not going to tell me what I said?”

Briefly, his voice grew serious. “Not right now.”

There was another silence. That one felt more loaded.

“Was there anything else, wife?” he asked innocently.

Shaking my head, I clicked softly. I let my voice get softer, too.

“We’re going to have words, you know. When you get back.” I paused. “Unless you plan on leaving me here the rest of the day while you wander around the ship without me… baiting me long distance about dreams I may or may not have had.”

He chuckled openly at that.

Listening to him, I bit my lip, frustrated that I couldn’t feel his light.

“Are you alone?” I asked finally.

“No.”

“Do they know you chained your wife to a wall?”

He clicked at me mildly, but I could hear something in it that time, something I almost recognized, enough that it brought up another coil of pain.

“I wanted to know where you were,” he said.

“You wanted to know where I…” I trailed, again fighting competing impulses for laughter and outrage. “You could have brought mewithyou, you freakin’ weirdo!”

“I didn’t want to disturb you.” His voice still sounded innocent. “You were tired. You haven’t been sleeping enough.”

“What if the ship got attacked?”

“I can unlock you from here.”

That stumped me. “You can?”

He clicked at me. That time, I could almost hear him rolling his eyes.

And yeah, he was right. I should have known the answer to that question without asking. Revik took paranoia to the level of an art form. He would never leave me like this if he couldn’t free meimmediatelyif something happened.