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
for them to run.
me alone. Killing is against the law. Have a heart, Tobias, and let
someone like me who has already known the blood of countless innocents with my
elicited
to finally understand what drew him to
up and cast its bloodless light upon the earth. Skylar was now
her hair. “You are always talking about ending it
Admittedly, he was right.
she saw him retrieve two sticks of candles which he lighted up using a flame drew from
rising white fumes
then raised the candles between his hands and bowed to the statue before he planted them
mother’s really into this stuff, and we used to visit every year… You didn’t really believe that I was going to kill you,
And there she was. Petrified, and
kicked herself for misinterpreting a completely innocuous
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