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.
curled into a
mind screamed for them to run. Her face
is against the law. Have a heart, Tobias, and let me
for someone like me who has
elicited
understand what
I don’t want to die.” At this moment, the sky opened up and cast its bloodless light upon the earth. Skylar was now able to see Tobias’s hardened face
his fingers through her hair. “You are always talking about ending it all. But you are
Admittedly, he was right.
sticks of candles which he
against the rising white fumes in
raised the candles between his hands and bowed to the statue
stuff, and we used to visit every year… You didn’t really believe that I was going to kill
agape. And there she was. Petrified,
misinterpreting a completely innocuous activity
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