Chapter 229

Celia

Isadora’s voice reached my ears, stroking my fury, my pain.

I had gone limp as a vegetable, staring at the shadows without a reaction or a sound. I had relived my worst memory…or so I thought.

“Do you think you are doing a good job by saving them?”

Isadora asked. She was standing quite far from me but then she came near me in an instant, as if she had teleported herself from her previous spot to be in front of me in the blink of an eye.

Up close, she looked even more hideous.

The pale skin had turned ashy and the black veins were throbbing over her face, neck…every exposed inch of skin that was visible to my eyes.

I should have shrieked, I should have cried in horror to see those veins bubble under her skin like a vicious serpent…or several worms.

“Oh now you just made it boring,” She said when I did not react or make a sound.

“I have been tied here for years, waiting for someone to show up, hoping to find someone who would be brave enough….and who did I meet? A pathetic, weak w