Chapter 16

We never made it to the river, we were halfway when someone came to call Damon that Mrs. Adams wanted to see him and it was an urgent matter.

He left after that, leaving me to walk alone back to my dorm room with the crushed anticipations of what could have happened at the river.

Everywhere was dead;y quiet as everyone was at the bonfire so I just slipped in, making straight for my bed with the book from the library in hand. Damon was obviously not coming back this night so it was safe to bring the book out.

I covered myself with the blanket and spread out the book in front of me, quickly flipping the page to where I stopped.

The cold ones. There was always a chill that went through me when I read it out loud but I brushed it off as always.

I continued reading about the two sons that had been brought back to life, the more the villagers tried to get rid of them the more villagers died at every waking dawn. In a space of two months the entire villag