“You see it now, don’t you?” Mila asked with a chuckle. “You see the truth now?” I swallowed, if I could even swallow in this strange mindscape. “I think so.” “So what are you going to do about it?” “I don’t know.” My head whirled with possibilities. I didn’t want to leave Nina, but… if she wa
Nina Gasping, I came to a skidding halt and dropped to my knees next to the dark form laying on the forest floor. “Enzo,” I murmured as I rolled him onto his back. Blood and foam trickled out of his mouth, and I cursed under my breath. Upon closer inspection, I saw it: the large gash in his abdo
Matt nodded stiffly. “I know. I tried telling him that neither of us would ever do something like that, but… I don’t know. There was something in his eyes. Something… unnatural.” My father and I looked at each other, blinking with confusion. Something unnatural? “What do you mean, son?” my fathe
Nina The look in Enzo’s eyes really was as if he had gone feral. As I stumbled backwards, knocking the chair out from under me, I saw the leather straps straining around his wrists. “Enzo!” I cried out over the sound of his menacing snarls. “Enzo, why are you doing this?!” “You bitch,” he repe
I would have laughed, had there been any humor left in me after everything that had happened. But I just snorted instead. “How very optimistic of you.” After flipping through a few more pages to discover that there was still nothing indicating a decipherable language, I started to grow frustrate
Nina “Nina… You found it.” The book sat on the floor between us, devoid of the bright white light that it had only just been emanating a moment ago. Tyler and I gasped at one another, utterly shocked by what had just happened. I blinked at him. “What?” I asked. “You knew about this book?” He
Nina “Nina… We have to get a divorce.” The moment Enzo uttered those words, I wondered if I was sleeping, if I was having some sort of nightmare. But deep down, I knew that wasn’t true; this was real. It was utterly, horribly real. “You don’t mean that,” I said, a wry chuckle escaping my lips
Nina I must have been asleep for hours, because by the time I woke up, the sun had long since dipped back below the horizon. There was hardly an hour, in fact, in which I was awake while the sun was out. The first thing I noticed was how parched I was. Groaning softly, I rolled over to see a fre