Chapter 42

Chapter Forty Two

I didn't know when exhaustion had overtaken me, but I must have fallen asleep amidst the comforting scent of Mariah. The weight of grief was too heavy, and sleep had claimed her as an escape,

When I woke, the room was shrouded in an unnatural stillness. A coll draft brushed over my skin, and I realized I wasn't alone.

I turned my head, and there, sitting on the edge of the bed, was Mariah.

But it wasn't the Mariah I remembered.

Her clothes were torn and bloodied, her chest grotesquely ripped open as though her heart had been torn from her body. Blood smeared her face, and her once gentle eyes were clouded over, lifeless.

“Mariah?” I whispered, my voice trembling. I sat up, reaching out tentatively, my fingers shaking.

curling into a strange, sorrowful smile. "You let me die, Stormi," she said, her voice a

vehemently. "No, Mariah, I'm so sorry Please

smile faltered, her expression twisting into something colder, darker. "Now You have no one, Stormi. No one

streaming down

her

It wasn't Mariah's laugh.

same malevolent laugh I had heard in the

to shift and writhe, coiling

massive, wolfish shadow. It loomed over me, its red eyes glowing

shadow leaned closer, its maw stretching wide as though

a sinister

darkness.I screamed as I woke, my body trembling violently. I thrashed against an unseen force, my cries echoing

"Stormi! Stormi, wake up!"

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