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.
his lips curled into
refused to move when her subconscious mind screamed for them to run. Her face trembled in her hands as she dreaded to look upon the
leave me alone. Killing is against the law. Have a heart, Tobias,
are just two words for someone like me who has
childlike whimper was elicited from
finally understand what
this moment, the sky opened up and cast its bloodless light upon the earth. Skylar was now
her hair. “You are always talking about ending
Admittedly, he was right.
him retrieve two sticks of candles which he lighted up using a flame drew from
held her nose against the rising white
candles between his hands and bowed to the
and we used to visit every year…
there she was. Petrified, and begging for her dear
innocuous activity and getting
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