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The loudest gasp I’ve ever heard comes out of Trey’s mouth. “He had it this whole time?”

“Yeah.”

Trey gapes at me with his mouth fully open. “And he’s gay?”

“Yeah, and Rakesh is moving into our apartment next week. That means I’ve got a week to pack up and move out.”

“Give me one day, baby. That’s all I need. I’ll call the movers first thing in the morning.”

“Most of my stuff is packed already. I started getting my things into boxes while Caleb and I worked out our divorce. It’ll be expensive to get all my stuff shipped to New York.”

Trey’s face crinkles into hard lines. “New York? No way. You don’t belong in New York. You belong here.”

“But isn’t that where you live?”

“Yes, but I’ve also got a house in Pasadena.”

What? “When did you get a house in Pasadena?”

“Two days ago. With starting a new production company here, I figured I was ready to be back in California full-time. I was planning to go back to New York tonight to pack up.”

“Is there room for me at your house in Pasadena?”

“Hell yeah. And if you need more space, I’ll buy us a new house. Whatever you want, wherever you want.”

I had already mentally prepared myself to move to New York with him during the week and work on getting my new bakery going over the weekends. Living in Pasadena sounds way better. “I’m sure the house you bought will be just fine.”

“It’s only got two bedrooms. I wasn’t expecting to need more. We can use one as ours and share the other one as our office. You can have a desk where you do all your bakery business stuff. I can have my guitars on the other side.”

“That sounds perfect.”

He takes my hands into his, giving me a short kiss on the knuckles. “I can’t believe this is happening.”

“I can. I’ve been waiting for this moment for four weeks.”

He shoots me a hard scowl. “Why did you wait so long?”

“I wanted to start our lives together without taking a single thing from the past with me. That included my marriage. Plus, I needed time to sort things out. This is a big transition for me. I had to tell people that Caleb and I were getting divorced, which was really scary.”

“How did everybody take the news?”

“My friends at work were shocked. Javina wasn’t surprised at all.

I’ve been keeping her in the loop about Caleb, so she saw this coming.

What she didn’t see was that he’s gay and that I’d been seeing you on Sundays.

When I told her my plan to come straight here after the divorce was finalized, she was thrilled.

Her first question was, Do you think he’ll give me free tickets to see his band’s shows? ”

Trey throws his head back with a laugh. “Tell Javina that pretty boy is happy to give her free tickets for life—with spa days included.”

“She’ll love that.”

“How did your grandparents take the news?”

I let out a long sigh as I recall the rough conversation I had with my grandparents.

Rough is putting it lightly. They went on and on about how Caleb and I needed to try harder to make the marriage work, even though I explained multiple times that Caleb isn’t interested in women anymore.

“They didn’t know that Caleb and I were having problems, so this came as a shock to them. ”

“Can I assume they don’t know about me either?”

“Nope. My plan is that in a few months, I’ll introduce you to them as if we just met.”

Trey nods his approval. “That sounds like a good plan.”

“Wonderful. Now before we get too ahead of ourselves, I need to ask you an important question.”

“Before you do that, can I, please, put that necklace around you?”

I perk up and hold out the diamond. He takes it from me, then I gather all my hair to one side. Our eyes lock as he hooks the jewelry around my neck. Once it drapes down from my collarbones, he plants a tender kiss against my forehead, then my lips, then my nose.

I giggle as he continues pecking me all over my face. I don’t stop him.

“Okay, I’ve had my fill for now.” He straightens his back as if he’s ready for anything I’m about to say. “You may ask your important question now.”

I come straight out with it. “How are we going to keep the zovernment from finding out about us?”

As expected, his eyes go wide. “H—how do you... What?”

“For the past two months, I’ve been having dreams of us flying on a floating tire. On it, you tell me things that don’t make sense but make everything else make sense. I’ve had that dream three times now. The last two times, I woke up and wrote as much of it down in my dream journal as possible.”

“You have a dream journal?”

I adjust to sit with my legs to the side.

“Yeah, to record all the dreams I have about you. I feel like my dreams are pieces of a puzzle, and I’ve been trying to put it together without most of the middle and only half the edges.

Once I had this dream of us on a flying tire, everything finally came together.

I’m still missing a lot of puzzle pieces, but I think I can see the main picture. ”

“Which is?”

“That we live in a world with two kinds of people: ones with powers and ones without. That you’re one of the people who has powers and I’m not, and for some reason, I’m immune to everyone’s powers.

I know that you can create fireballs with your hands and move things without touching them.

I know I was kidnapped and that you saved me.

I even know that after the Enforcers captured us, I was interrogated for three days about everything I know about your world. ”

With every piece of information I say out loud, Trey seems to lose more air in his lungs. “Holy shit.”

I place a gentle hand over his forearm. “Trey, if all my dreams over the past three years are things that actually happened, then I want you to know that I fought them when they tried to scrub me. I begged them to give me an exception. I even punched someone in the nose and made them bleed as they dragged me to the procedure room. I’m going to assume that’s how I woke up in the hospital and that’s the first time Caleb and I ever saw each other.

“I think I’m going to continue seeing the past in my sleep and eventually, I’ll remember everything.

Every few months, I see something new instead of a repeat, and it gives me more pieces of the puzzle.

” I hope that, through being with Trey, I’ll be able to learn everything I used to know, and then some.

Trey lets out a long breath, taking this all in. “So what do we do now?”

“Now,” I say with a grin, “we move forward.”

“But what about staying off the zovernment’s radar?”

“We’ll figure that out along the way.”