Chapter 108

Timothy stared at the message on his phone, his dark eyes fixed on the glowing

screen for a long while.

[Do you like it?]

He typed a reply.

[Yeah, just like Happy and Lucky.]

He pressed his lips together, thinking.

If Sheila liked them, there was no harm in giving her one too.

There were twenty-two left.

He bought them all, though he only intended to keep one.

The rest, he'd throw away.

It was just an excuse to set one aside for Sheila.

[If you like it, keep it.]

Capital City.

Jessica was too afraid to sleep. She huddled in the corner of the hotel room, knees pulled to her chest, shivering so hard her fingernails nearly broke the skin of her palms.

Every clap of thunder struck like a hammer against her heart.

did the world briefly flicker into view. The wind howled, rain

memories crashed

heavy and gray, rain threatening at

mother had handed her a twenty, told her to run to the corner store for a bottle of soy sauce, and said she could buy

ages picking out candy, even choosing a piece of cake she knew her mom

bag of groceries, when

was a

finally looked, she saw it was her

wide and unseeing, blood

her head in dark,

ears. Her

that a woman

surrounded

crashed to the ground.

call out, to scream for

but no

thunder

Jessica alone in their apartment, and followed the

her mother's broken body played on a loop in Jessica's

rolling thunder outside never stopped, battering her small

why

with every fiber in her body,

home earlier, maybe her

her teeth, hands shaking as

screen was blinding in the

Her lips trembled.

crash of thunder nearly

coming in ragged gasps, as if she

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