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Chapter 100
The first thing Beverly noticed was the beeping. It was soft, steady — like a weird lullaby for people on the edge of something.Her eyes felt heavy. Her lips were dry. Her throat burned like she’d swallowed nails.She blinked slowly.White ceiling. Blurred lights. Hospital air — cold and sterile, like it didn’t belong to anyone.She tried to move her hand, but it tugged against something. An IV line. Her fingers twitched weakly.Then the pain hit her chest. Not sharp. Not dramatic. Just this weird, dull ache, like her whole body had been hollowed out and stuffed with sand.“Beverly?”The voice came from beside her. Shaky. Familiar.Her mom.Beverly turned her head slightly.Margaret was already leaning forward, gripping her hand, tears running down her cheeks.“Oh my God,” Margaret whispered. “You’re awake. You’re okay. You’re okay.”Beverly’s throat was too raw to talk, so she just blinked once. Slowly. Then again.She remembered…Bits and pieces. The ritual. The cold surface under
Chapter 99
The hospital room smelled like antiseptic and dread. Beeping machines filled the silence, their rhythms the only proof that Beverly was still here — still holding on. Barely.Davion sat beside her bed, one hand loosely wrapped around hers. His hoodie was stained — blood, ash, something dark from the altar — but he didn’t care. He hadn’t said a word since the nurses left. Just stared. Just waited.Her skin was still pale. Eyes shut. Tubes in her arms, oxygen under her nose. She looked so still it scared him.“I should’ve gotten there sooner,” he whispered, his voice hoarse.The door creaked open behind him.He didn’t turn.“I said no visitors,” he muttered, assuming it was a nurse.But it wasn’t.“Where is she?” a woman’s voice cried out.Davion stood slowly, turning toward the door — and his stomach dropped.It was Margaret. Beverly’s mom.She rushed in like the floor was on fire, her heels clacking, her face crumbling the second she saw her daughter in that bed.“Bev…” she breathed.
Chapter 98
The tires screeched as Irene pulled up behind the old factory ruins, heart pounding harder than the bass in her mom’s old club playlists. The backseat was cramped, her mom slumped sideways, snoring like she hadn’t almost been used as blackmail in a supervillain dad plot five hours ago.Irene clenched the steering wheel.“This is insane,” she muttered. “This is literally insane.”Then the door burst open.“Drive!” Davion barked, dragging something—no, someone—into the car.It took her a second to process what she was seeing.Wilson was limping, bruised, but alive. Reika had one arm looped around his shoulder, eyes sharp even though she looked like she’d just walked through hell in Crocs.But it was Davion who really made her stomach drop.Because in his arms?Beverly.Unconscious.Barefoot.Wrapped in someone’s gross ceremonial cloak like she’d just been dragged out of a damn horror movie.Irene’s voice cracked as she shouted, “What the hell happened?!”“No time!” Davion yelled, slammi
Chapter 97
Davion’s head was still buzzing, but this time, it wasn’t from pain — it was from power.Real power.The kind that didn’t ask permission.The kind that lived under your skin and waited for the moment you finally stopped pretending to be weak.He didn’t know what exactly snapped — maybe the chain, maybe something inside him — but suddenly the cuffs didn’t feel so tight anymore. They were warm now. Almost soft. Like the metal didn’t know whether to fear him or obey him.He pulled again — slower this time — and one of the shackles creaked.“Come on,” he muttered, “just give me this.”Another tug.Clang.The metal broke.Just like that.His arm dropped free, heavy and sore, but he didn’t care. He looked down at the bloody scrape it left and grinned through the sting.“One down.”His other arm took a little longer, but once he was free, he stumbled forward and leaned against the stone wall, catching his breath. Everything hurt. But he was out.For now.His dad would come back. He always di
Chapter 95
IreneIrene didn’t sleep.Not really.She just sat there in the dark, legs pulled up to her chest, hoodie zipped all the way up, phone balanced on her knee like a loaded weapon.Every time the wind rustled through the trees, she flinched.Every time a headlight passed, her pulse jumped.It wasn’t just fear — it was that constant, itchy feeling in her spine like she was being watched. Hunted.She glanced at her mom, asleep in the passenger seat, head tilted against the window. Peaceful. Too peaceful. Irene had checked the locks three times already, but it didn’t matter. Nothing felt safe anymore.Her phone buzzed again.Not a message. Just a glitch. Screen flickering for a second like it was struggling to breathe.“Nope,” she muttered, shoving it into her backpack. “Not dealing with ghost wifi at fucking 3 a.m.”Her thoughts spiraled again — back to Davion. To how he vanished after they got out of the forest. One second he was beside her, and the next he was just… gone. No trail. No wa
Chapter 95
Irene had never packed so fast in her life. Not that she had much to pack — just her phone charger, a hoodie that didn’t smell totally gross, and the switchblade Davion gave her three months ago. Just in case, he’d said with that stupid smirk of his. Like she’d ever actually need it.Well. Guess what.Her mom was still half-asleep and asking questions Irene wasn’t ready to answer. “Irene, slow down. Why are we leaving? Where are we even going?”“I’ll explain in the car,” Irene muttered, stuffing the last charger cord into her backpack and yanking the zipper closed. “We just have to go. Now.”“Irene, this is ridiculous. You’re scaring me.”“Good,” she snapped, harsher than she meant to. “Because I’m scared too. And I’m not gonna sit here and wait for the psycho who sent me a picture of you sleeping to come back for round two.”Her mom froze.Irene didn’t have time to soften it. She slung her backpack over her shoulder, grabbed her mom’s purse from the hook, and tossed it at her. “Come
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