Crystal's POV:

By the time I returned to my residence, my emotions were completely out of control.

I had no idea how things had come to this. If everything had been premeditated, that meant that I had become a willing prey.

My thoughts were clouded by an indescribable pain. It felt as though thousands of ants were crawling all over my skin, gnawing at my flesh.

I stumbled into my room and burrowed under the covers of my bed.

I was shivering. I felt hot and cold at the same time.

My head was pounding, too, and all I could think about was the pain. Images of death flashed in my vision-Leonard's, Maya's, Rufus'.

I saw Rufus with a cut on his throat, caused by the black thorn that adorned his body...

And now... Now, it was Beryl's turn, wasn't it?

Noreen had once told me that I would only bring misfortune to the people around me.

one, the people I loved and the people who

done my best to fight against my

sheets turning damp as I sobbed, hoping against hope that this was all just a huge and

course, it

grace period, the calm before the storm. What was fated was bound to happen sooner

me to death. It seemed like the ants from hell had already penetrated

it filled the bathtub, I just submerged my head into the water, praying that it would numb the pain, if only a little. Sᴇaʀ*ᴄh the FɪndNøvel.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters

mirror. Through the haze, I could make

once, then twice, but my vision remained hazy. The feeling was not

me that I wasn't drunk. If that wasn't it, then something else was wrong with my body. My mind was in a daze, and I was itching and burning

but the itchiness only seemed to get worse. I scratched and scratched,

someone

room. I whipped around

down my face as held up my bleeding arm. "Thetch won't stop," I whispered miserably. "What

I

to scratch my arm again, but Rufus caught it in

"It's okay. Don't think about the itch. Everything will be fine

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