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.

violently against the rocks, and the main fell in thick sheets, like a tangled web of

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though fate was like that storm-always just our of reach, but never letting me

trapped, unable

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days meant I had missed nine meals. My stomach

threatening him with starvation

With my injured leg. I hobbled toward the

eat.

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

hallway was dimly lit, but outside, the world was covered in complete darkness. For now, it was just me and Yael. And with him gone, I

there were any creatures on the island besides the

up, which meant he didn't think I

was there a boat in sight to help

I could make it to the edge,

trying to escape would only

but the unfamiliarity of my surroundings made me hesitate. It seemed

the basement he had shown me earlier. Though I couldn't see the lightning down

if something unseen was watching me, sending a shiver

hurried my steps, reaching the stone chamber filled with

told me he

enough, in the corner, I found

bingers outstretched, a serene expression on my face, as if I were

body huddled beneath the store looking like I

stirred a

years ago, on a night not unlike this

was 14, just finishing a piano lesson, about

saw a small boy huddled under tree, trembling from

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you alright, little guy? Where are your parents? Why are

looked up at me, his face streaked

you live? I'll

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will kill me," he said, shaking his head wildly. He reached out and grabbed my skirt. "Chloe, will you stay with me for just a

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

the past flashed through my mind. I realized I had crossed paths

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