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Chapter Seventeen

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Beatrice’s eyes never left the creatures lurking in the shadows. She took meagre comfort from the contact of Claire’s back against hers, both braced and ready for any pending attack. But the nagging thought that Lucas was lost to her mind’s eye was difficult to push aside.

Until the thump, thump, thump of something rolling across the deck brought her back to the here and now.

“That’s weird,” Claire said behind her.

Beatrice couldn’t think of anything that could top the creatures in the ballroom, but she went with Claire’s assessment.

“What was it?”

“A girl appeared out of nowhere and landed on the deck,” Claire said.

Beatrice thought this met the standard. “Yeah, okay, that’s pretty weird.”

She risked taking a peek over Claire’s shoulder. The malformed figure prowled the deck, green eyes glaring, and then to Beatrice’s surprise, Emily jumped up and stood up to face the creature as it lunged.

Beatrice moved fast, circumventing Claire, and reached out to g
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