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    â€œI don’t blame you. I didn’t believe it at first, either,” he admitted and then gestured within her room. “May I come in?”
    She stepped aside and waved her arm in answer. She suspected he would not let her rest until they’d had this discussion.
    â€œI’m a practical person, Rey. I don’t believe in—”
    â€œLegends? Tales of a sacred space?” he immediately countered. “But seeing is believing, isn’t it?”
    Disbelief propelled her to say, “You want me to see this supposed alternate realm?”
    â€œI want you to visit it with me. Tonight,” he said, but she detected a bit of unease in his voice and stance.
    â€œIs there something you’re not telling me?” She walked back toward her bed, sat on its edge, forcing herself not to recall what had happened the last time they had been in such close proximity.
    But Rey kept his distance. He folded his arms across his muscled chest and inclined his head as he peered at her, his gaze dark. Almost calculating. “Visiting the sacred space can be…addictive. Rumor has it your father went there too often.”
    â€œMy mother told me he would stay away for days at a time,” she admitted, but kept to herself the rest of her mother’s comment—that Paola’s father had seemed to be disappearing before her mother’s eyes. When her mother had first mentioned it, Paola had thought that her mother had been unwilling to face the fact that her husband might have been going into the arms of another woman. But after hearing her grandmother speak, it seemed as if it might have been something entirely different.
    â€œWe are not supposed to stay that long or visit too often. We are not meant to live there, only to protect it,” Rey advised her without hesitation. He clearly understood and accepted whatever rules there were about that alternate world.
    â€œâ€˜We’ as in the Guardians?” she questioned, wanting to be sure she had comprehended what her grandmother had explained earlier during dinner.
    Rey nodded. “There are those amongst us who possess a different spirit. One that allows us to see beyond what is here—to the other side. The more powerful of us can even travel from this place in time to the other. The Lopes family has always had the strongest spirits.”
    â€œWhich is why my grandmother is the Priestess of the Guardians?”
    With a nod, Rey said, “Are you prepared to go? To see for yourself?”
    Paola was inclined not to believe their tales, but was also finding it hard to comprehend how so many people could be under the same delusions. Especially when they appeared otherwise sane. If such a place did exist, she needed to understand why her father had prized it above his wife and daughter.
    There was the truth in a nutshell. The question she had asked herself time and again, much as she assumed her mother had: What had been more important to her father than his family?
    But now there were so many other questions. What was expected of her now that she was here? If they wanted her to stay, would she be willing to leave the life she had made for herself back in New York?
    Then of course there was Rey. Even now her insides clenched with need thanks to his presence. Could she just walk away from the way he made her feel?
    So many questions and all without answers. She wasn’t sure of anything after their earlier discussion, but she had to see what her legacy entailed. Then and only then would she begin to find answers to those questions.
    â€œI’m ready to go.”
    â€œDo you have a bathing suit? It’s best to wear as little as possible to make the shift,” he advised.
    â€œI don’t.” She hadn’t planned on this being a pleasure trip and so she hadn’t packed a suit.
    â€œWe have some spares near the pool out back. We can stop and get one,” he said and held out his hand in