The ends of the gold chain were clipped together before Tobias could try to help her put it on.

The girl was quick; that spoke to her independence.

After he spent much time with her, he had learned that she was the hands-on type.

Were it up to any other woman, they would have coquettishly commented about how much they liked it and asked for their suitor to put it on for them.

Tobias held her hand anew as the cawing of a murder of crows spiraled overhead. The path grew more foreboding the more they advanced.

There was hardly any warmth emanating from his palm.

 

When they finally came to halt before a spot where a standing statue was prominently featured, Skylar swallowed hard. Oh God, I knew it! I knew this was all too good to be true – he’s going to kill me here!

“You are not going to conduct a blood sacrifice, are you?”

 

He looked straight at her without speaking.

lips curled into

when her subconscious mind screamed for them to run. Her face trembled in her hands as

is against the law. Have a

two words for someone like me who has already known the

was elicited from between her paralyzed

understand what drew

want to die.” At this moment, the sky opened up and cast its bloodless

her hair. “You are always talking about

Admittedly, he was right.

she was gripped by her fear and terror, she saw him retrieve two sticks of candles

white fumes in

and bowed to the statue before he planted them at its

of this mountain. My mother’s really into this stuff, and we used to visit every

was.

kicked herself for misinterpreting a completely innocuous activity and getting all worked up for

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