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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.

my baby away in a red tide. I reached for him, trying to save him, but it

he had been, 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 were pulling at

away.


my son.

Away from Lucien.

And into the abyss.

was my own but not quite stared back at me. I screamed, clawing at it until the flesh fell away to reveal another

that was laying in a casket with her hands folded over her chest. Everything about it

moment I touched it. Only thin wisps remained beneath. I wiped at my skin, peeling away the layers of thick

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Pale. Pallid. Green.

Rotting already.

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my skin. I felt it at first rather

eye, sending a milky blue eyeball rolling off into the bloody mud around me. I opened my mouth to scream, but only


burying me alive, six feet deep,

cries.

wood splintering and cracking to let the earth and the bugs in,

beyond the flames. Behind my eyelids,

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