Page 67 of Rebellion

“I suppose. Why?” Rogan asked curiously.

Should she tell him?

Well, what did it matter now?

“Because I’ve been dreaming about it for months now. I even started drawing it. I’m obsessed with it. I’ve been having these dreams that I’m in a forest looking for someone. Then I hear this loud noise. I’m scared, terrified. Sometimes, the dream ends there, and I wake up. But lately, they’ve kept going. I see this man. He falls to the ground in front of me, but his face is blurry. The only thing I can really see is the tattoo. Then I take off running. I’m trying to find someone when I run into this woman.” Sofia stared at Miller. She’d always thought she looked familiar. But she hadn’t dreamed of the other woman’s face until today in the hospital. Why hadn’t it been clear until now?

Frustration bit at her. But then why would someone who looked like Miller be involved? That made no sense.

Ugh, you are completely losing it, Sofia.

“She kind of reminds me of you.”

Miller frowned. “Did the woman appear in your dreams before or after you met me?”

Huh.

That was a good point. Now that she thought about it, Sofia realized that when Miller showed up, it wasn’t the first time the woman had been in her dreams. Just that she’d never been so clear before.

“Before.”

Miller stood and Rogan reached up for her hand. “Where are you going?”

“To get something. I’ll be back in a minute.”

When she returned, she held an old-looking silver locket, which she handed to Sofia. “Is this the woman?”

Sofia stared down at the picture. It was faded and tiny. “It’s hard to tell. The picture’s so small, and my memory is kind of fuzzy. But, yeah, it looks like her. This was your mother?”

“Yes. She was murdered fifteen years ago. They never caught her killer.”

“Around the same time that Gerard Callahan disappeared,” Rogan said.

Sofia glanced at them both. What were they trying to say? Who was Gerard Callahan? Maybe a relative of Step Callahan?

And his disappearance was somehow tied to Miller’s mother?

“Gerard was the former leader of the Seven Sinners and Step Callahan’s father,” Miller explained, obviously seeing her confusion. “I’m surprised you don’t know this already.”

Sofia shrugged. “Aleksandr is old-fashioned. He doesn’t talk to me aboutwork. The Seven Sinners don’t come near Solnyshko, and that’s where I spend most of my time. I’ve never seen that tattoo before. Except in my dreams, that is.”

“Gerard Callahan has also been identified as the body they pulled out of Lake Medina,” Colm added. “Step Callahan thinks Rogan’s father had something to do with his death.”

“Why?” Sofia asked. That seemed a strange conclusion to come to.

“Because my father, with the help of your father and Iker Florez, was trying to run the Seven Sinners out of the city at the time,” Rogan explained.

“I don’t remember any of this,” Sofia said.

Lord, she was getting a headache. Perhaps Sacha had been right. It was better if she stayed out of all this.

“You must have only been about eight,” Colm told her, moving closer.

She wished he’d sit down beside her.

Maybe pull her onto his lap.

But you can’t have any of that, Sofia.

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