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Chapter 237

Ella

I waited.

And waited.

And… waited.

One by one, the other women in the room were called for their interviews. Slowly, the room began to drain, leaving me behind. Even Sophia got called before I did, strutting out of the room with her head held high and a triumphant smile on her face.

Meanwhile, I was left to rot.

I waited for so long that the exhaustion of the past few days finally began to catch up with me. Sitting on the plush sofa that I had once spent afternoons reading letsurely on made me realize how uncomfortable the cellar room was, and the crackling fire in the fireplace began to lull me to sleep.

Soon, I was beginning to nod off right there on the couch.

I fell into dreams of blood and death.

for him, trying to save him, but it was too late. He was drowning, being pulled

he was gone. I dug through the thickening blood, so thick it was almost like mud now, but he wasn’t there. Soon, those hands

away.


my son.

Away from Lucien.

And into the abyss.

front of my face, revealing silver eyes and burgundy hair. A face that was my own but not quite stared back at me. I screamed, clawing at it until the flesh fell

I remembered seeing in the mirror–rather, one that was laying in

my hair, realizing that it was nothing more than a blonde wig that fell away the moment I touched it. Only thin wisps remained beneath. I wiped at my skin, peeling

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Pale. Pallid. Green.

Rotting already.

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I felt it at first rather than saw it, but

sending a milky blue eyeball rolling off into the bloody mud around me.


mud was burying me alive, six feet deep, too deep for

cries.

and cracking to let

flames. Behind my eyelids,

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