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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 main fell in thick sheets,

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storm-always just our of

trapped, unable to

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I had missed nine meals. My

threatening him with starvation to get him to

too much. With my injured leg. I hobbled toward

eat.

as I opened it, a gust of wind barreled down the hall, causing my long skirt and

lit, but outside, the world was covered in complete darkness. For now, it was just me and Yael. And with him gone, I couldn't shake the feeling of unease creeping

there were any creatures on the island besides

he didn't think I

to contact anyone, nor was there a boat in sight to

it to the edge, the vipers made it feel like a

the storm howling outside, trying to escape would only lead to

unfamiliarity of my surroundings made

he had shown me earlier. Though I couldn't

if something unseen was watching me,

the stone chamber filled with

instincts told me he would

I found him curled up beneath a

outstretched,

the store looking like

sight stirred

ago, on a night

finishing a piano lesson, about to head

I stepped outside, I saw a small boy

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alright, little guy? Where are your

up at me, his face

do you live?

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

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

the past flashed through my mind. I realized I

seemed he had suffered as a child, and nights like this, stormy and dark, were his greatest fear. When he saw me, it was as though

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