Even after Her Death by Rita Bond

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Chapter 395 Kill Him

When I regained consciousness, the images from just before I blacked out came rushing back.

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The heavy clouds, the pounding rain, and the black snake coiled around the tombstone, its green eyes locked onto me.

I sprang from the bed, pain shooting through my knees.

I couldn't help but gasp quietly.

Looking around, I realized I was in the same room as before, a sense of disappointment settling in.

Of course, Carter couldn't have found me so quickly.

The room had been tidied up, the unpleasant smell replaced with the fresh scent of clean sheets.

I had been kneeling in the cemetery for ten long hours. My knee had been treated-ointment slathered on it and wrapped in gauze.

It was night now. The room was dark, and the rain slammed against the windows in a constant, sharp crackle. The wind howled outside, and the waves roared against the shore.

It felt like some wild beast was trying to tear the world apart.

I sat on the bed, pulling my legs up to my chest. The feud between the Sanders and the Carlyns was no longer a mystery.

The Carlyns had suffered, but hadn't the Sanders, too?

My body had been torn apart. Ethan and Jake had died without ever knowing why, or who they had. wronged.

Whitney hadn't died, though. She lived, enduring endless suffering and torment.

The grudges between the two families were knotted together, tangled in a way that couldn't be undone..

I had thought I was free of the Sanders, but here I was pulled back into it.

It had been two days and a night. What was happening with Carter?

I eased myself off the bed, wincing as pain flared in my knee. The ointment had helped, but the moment I put weight on it, the pain flared up again.

1 limped over to the window, each step sending jolts of pain through my leg.

Outside, the ocean-stretched out, dark and ominous.

The sky was thick with clouds, and a flash of lightning cut through the air, illuminating the world for a split second.

the rocks, and the main fell in thick sheets, like a tangled

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as though fate was like that storm-always just our of

unable

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meant I had missed nine meals. My stomach pressed painfully against

to make the mistake of threatening him with starvation to get him to

too much. With my injured leg. I hobbled

eat.

I opened it, a gust of wind barreled down

For now, it was just me and

if there were any creatures on the island

me up, which meant he didn't think I would

was there a boat in sight

make it to the edge, the

storm howling outside, trying to escape would

but the unfamiliarity of my surroundings made me hesitate. It seemed wiser to find Yael

Though I couldn't see the lightning down here, the thunder

unseen was watching me, sending a shiver down

my steps, reaching the stone chamber filled

instincts told me he would be

corner, I found him curled up beneath

bingers outstretched, a serene expression on my face, as

body huddled beneath the store looking like I had been the

stirred

on a night

14, just finishing a piano lesson, about to

I stepped outside, I saw a small

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alright, little guy? Where are your

me, his

do you live? I'll

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my skirt. "Chloe, will you stay with me for just a little while? My

""Don't worry, I'm here."

the past flashed through my mind. I realized I

were his greatest fear. When he saw me, it was as