Chapter 105
Author: Gem
last update2025-06-16 23:59:08

Beverly’s phone buzzed nonstop. Notifications, alerts, missed calls, reposts. Her video from the tower had exploded. Ten thousand views in an hour. Twenty thousand by the time they hit the next town. The truth was out, and the world was watching.

But with truth came fire.

“We can’t stay in one place too long,” Davion said, steering the beat-up sedan they “borrowed” from a shady gas station. His knuckles were white on the wheel. “They’re gonna come for us.”

“They already are,” Reika muttered from the backseat, eyes scanning every car that passed. She had her bow wedged between her knees and a GoPro strapped to her chest.

Wilson was riding shotgun, swiping through feeds. “Half the internet thinks we faked it. The other half is calling it ‘proof of the cult uprising.’ And then there’s this weirdo who thinks Bev’s some chosen goddess.”

Beverly groaned. “Ugh, I didn’t ask for a fan club.”

“You did punch a high priest in the face while bleeding out. That’s kind of iconic.” Wilson grinned.

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