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 main fell in thick sheets,

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storm-always just our of reach, but never letting me

was trapped, unable

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days meant I had missed nine

make the mistake of threatening him with starvation

leg. I hobbled toward the door,

eat.

down the hall, causing

it was just me

any creatures on the

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

anyone, nor was there a boat in sight to help

edge, the vipers

to escape would only lead

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

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

as if something unseen was watching me,

hurried my steps, reaching the stone chamber filled

told me

in the corner, I found him curled up beneath

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

body huddled beneath the store looking like I

stirred a

on

a piano lesson, about to head

outside, I saw a small boy huddled under

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your parents? Why are you

at me, his

live? I'll take you

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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 little while? My brother will find me soon."

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

flashed through my mind. I realized I had crossed paths with him long

this, stormy and dark, were his greatest fear. When he saw me, it was as though he had found