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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.

dreamt of crimson liquid gushing from between my legs, washing my baby away in a red tide. I reached for him, trying to save him, but it was too late. He was drowning, being pulled beneath

thickening blood, so thick it was almost like mud now, but he wasn’t there. Soon, those hands were pulling at

away.


my son.

Away from Lucien.

And into the abyss.

in 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

old face. But not the one I remembered seeing in the mirror–rather, one that was laying in a casket with her hands folded over

blonde wig that fell away the moment I touched it. Only thin

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Pale. Pallid. Green.

Rotting already.

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to wriggle beneath my skin. I felt it at

rolling off into the bloody mud around me. I


was decaying already. The mud was burying me alive, six feet deep, too deep for anyone to

cries.

and cracking to let the

The echoes of a baby crying beyond the flames. Behind my eyelids, I saw strong

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