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politeness.” She made her fingers into a C shape and snapped them together in a ‘shut it’ motion. “We need to talk.”
    “I told you— we do.”
    He held out his hand for her to take, but she glared at him.
    “Let’s go into the back. I may be able to make a bit more sense of it all for you there. Would you like a cup of tea first? Things always go better with tea.”
    “Do I look like I want tea?” Sam walked off, leaving him to trail behind. When she got to the top of the wooden stairs, she stopped and spun on him. “I don’t know what is going on, but stay the hell out of my head!”
    “I can’t.”
    She blinked at his reply. “What do you mean you can’t. You will.”
    “I’m not the one responsible for your dreams.”
    “Who is?”
    “I do not know.”
    “When I’m not thinking about you or dreaming about you, I think about this bookstore. I can’t stop. There are voices in my head telling me that I need to come back here and help you. Day and night. Twenty-four-seven. I’ve turned into a crazy cat lady! Did you slip me a hallucinogenic?”
    He looked shocked. “Drug you? Good God, woman, what kind of a man do you think I am. Be reasonable, when did I have time to give you opium or absinth?”
    She paused to ponder his question. “I have no idea who you are or why there is a herd of your friends setting up an occupy movement in my head.” She tapped her forehead with her fingertip.
    “This is what I tried to tell you the other night. You are my guide. I need your help to leave this place. If I am right with my conclusion and with the contact I’ve had with other travels through the portal, you will continue to have these dreams until we come to an agreement.”
    “An agreement? An agreement that I didn’t agree too? For what?”
    “This place is a portal where I guide others to different times and places. I arrived here in the year, 1889. You tell me it is the year 2012.” He watched her for a long moment as if waiting for her to absorb the information. “I know how fanatical this all sounds. It sounds insane to my own ears. That is why I brought you back here, so you can see and understand.”
    “I’m not going anywhere.”
    “Please, do not make me beg as it is most unbecoming, but I have no other plans.”
    The broken look in his eyes made Sam go against her better judgment. Why was she having these feelings for him, she barely knew him. But every time they were together, it felt as if she’d known him for years. Even loved him. Crazy .
    “Just for a few minutes, take my hand, and trust me.”
    Memories of the dreams made her take the leap and trust him. She had to chip off the hard shell she’d built around her heart, even if it was for a few minutes. Sam wanted to feel that bond with someone special. He needed her.
    Hadley slowly inched the large wooden door open and urged her to follow him. A blast of cold air washed over them.
    “This is the street where I live… lived.” He cleared his throat. “The residence, where I grew up.”
    A beautiful horse drawn carriage distracted Sam as it drove past. She turned in complete circle and stared. No cars. No... anything that should be here. “Are you trying to tell me that when we stepped out that door, now we’re in 1889?”
    “Partially. The portal is based here, so this is why we can step out. We see this time, but it does not see us, for we do not exist here.”
    “How do you know this?”
    His brows knit in a frown. “I came back the other night. I knew this was true of other times I traveled to, but did not want to believe Arthur it would happen in my own time when I tried to return home. ”
    As he spoke, a well-dressed couple came out of the residence. The woman looked up at the sky. “Do you think it will rain?” she asked.
    “No, we will be there soon enough. Don’t worry about it.” The heavyset man swung open the wrought iron gate and motioned for her to move out to the street.
    Hadley stepped forward and