Chapter 17 Recurring Dream

• Reina's eyes shot open, her heart racing as she sat up, drenched in her own sweat. She was having a recurring dream where she was breastfeeding a newborn baby with piercing green eyes staring back at her as he sucked on her nipple. His piercing green eyes locked onto hers with an intensity that made her heart swell with love. He latched onto her breast, warmth radiating between them, a bond so tender it felt real—until it was shattered.
• Out of nowhere, a woman in a flowing black dress whose face she couldn't make out due to the flimsy black veil on her head came and seized the baby from her, yanking him away with a swift, ruthless motion. Panic surged through Reina as she sprang to her feet, her body fueled by an instinct as she lunged toward the woman to reclaim her baby. Yet, as if trapped in an invisible web, the distance between them stretched impossibly far, each step she took forward, as the room echoed with the heart-wrenching cries of her baby, a sound that pierced through the silence and clawed at her very soul, filling the air with an unbearable sense of loss.
• “My baby…” Reina's voice trembled with fear, tears stinging her eyes. She began to run, each stride fueled by an instinctive need to reclaim what was being torn from her grasp. Yet, with every determined step, the figure, which had now become shadowy, and her baby were being drawn back into an all-consuming darkness. It felt as though an invisible string was tied around the woman, pulling her back into the darkness.