Gloom

Chapter 161

The demon's gray eyes met mine for an eternal moment. An instant that he wreaked havoc on my chest, while I saw the incongruous image of her lips on hers.

In the next second, with my mind blank, I turned on my heels.

I didn't notice the people. I removed with my arm every person who crossed my path, anyone who prevented me from the only thing I wanted to do at that moment. He could not escape through the entrance of the house, not without passing by them and witnessing what preceded an excessive and repulsive closeness. So I pushed through the kitchen and out to the backyard, which was still packed with people, boys and girls bathing and others just talking or dancing around the pool. That just made me even more desperate.

I strode forward until I opened the door to that cumbersome fenced area. The music was still playing so loudly that it echoed in my ears and in my ribcage, and somehow it seemed to worsen that strange feeling that squeezed my chest in a painful way. I just wanted to