Chapter 18: Bound but not Gagged

Silvana banged on Bruce's front door.

The lights were off in the house, and she shouted, "Bruce?! Kurt? Please open up. It's me."

Tears laced her eyes, and as she continued to pound her fist to the door, she clenched her father's mysterious journal with her other hand.

If what she had read was true, then she didn't have much time.

"Bruce, please!" Silvana sobbed.

After knocking on the front door and throwing stones at each window of the dark house, Silvana crumpled to the grassy floor beside dead leaves, and she cried loudly to herself, grasping her father's journal and screaming out in despair.

She called Bruce, then Amelia, both over and over, until she had no battery left, and her phone simply died.

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Back at her house, Solaris entered the cellar, taking each step slowly with his cane. Inside and restrained on a metal table with thick straps was a struggling man with a white sheet over him. His hands, chest, and legs were clamped into place with mas