Gloom

Chapter 322

Immediately, in a gesture that was foreign to me but that I felt I urgently needed to do, I put my arms around Nat. To my regret, the tears I had struggled to hold back overflowed from my eyes. She hugged me back immediately, squeezing me with all her strength.

"I'll do whatever it takes to get back," I murmured. And I will bring them back.

"Promise," he asked with a broken voice.

—I swear... Whatever it costs me, I will return.

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My eyelids were heavy from fatigue. I had barely managed to sleep a couple of hours during what seemed like the longest night of my life.

I looked at my breakfast with some disgust, due to the knot of anxiety I had in my stomach from the previous day, which seemed to have settled permanently. Despite this, I forced myself to eat, since I had no idea when the demon would come to give him my answer. And, therefore, I didn't even know when he would feed me again.

The uncertainty was devastating.

I preferred to go to work only because Anthony was still dre