Chapter 26

Before I could stop her, Tera snatched the paper from my hand.

"No-no. Wait!" I tried to reach for it, but I was no match to her height, and the glare she was directing my way froze me in my ground.

My heart didn't beat inside me, it pounded like a madman getting all his anger out on a door. The word caught echoed in my head. I was dead. So dead.

She'd tell him; he'd know. He'd know about my papa. He would go after him and...

Uncrumpling the paper, she stared at it, her brows furrowing angrily.

I gulped. I had the urge to hit her in the head, finish her, stop her from going to Hades. I urged violence to save my loved one.

I might have even acted on it had she not turned the paper over, her eyes blinking in confusion. She turned it back, then raised it before my eyes.

"What is it? What were you trying to do?"

I stared at the blank paper, not being able to fathom a thing. There was no single word message on it anymore. It looked like not even a scratch from a pen graced it ever.