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

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like that storm-always just our of reach, but never

trapped, unable to

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meant I had missed nine meals. My stomach

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

life too much. With my injured leg. I hobbled toward the door, hoping to

eat.

I opened it, a gust of wind barreled down the hall, causing

was just

any creatures on the island

chained me up, which meant he didn't think

contact anyone, nor was there a boat in sight

the edge, the vipers made it

outside, trying to escape would only

of my surroundings made me hesitate. It seemed wiser to find

basement he had shown me earlier. Though I couldn't

was as if something unseen was watching

reaching the stone chamber filled with

told me he

the corner, I found him curled up beneath a

bingers outstretched, a serene expression on

his large body huddled beneath the store looking like

stirred a

was many years ago, on a night not unlike this

finishing a piano lesson, about

a small boy huddled under

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are your parents? Why are

me, his face streaked

live? I'll take you

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you stay with me for just a little while? My brother will find me soon." I crouched

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

from the past flashed through my mind. I realized

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