Becca rose slowly to her feet.The chains of exhaustion weighed heavily on her limbs, but she refused to let them show. If this was how she was meant to stand in Blackwood Mansion then she would stand unbroken.“I didn’t come here willingly,” Becca said evenly, her voice steady despite the storm pounding inside her chest.Seraphina laughed. It wasn’t a sound of humor, it was sharp, brittle, almost hysterical, as if laughter were the only thing holding her together. She shut the door behind her with a deliberate click, the sound loud in the tense silence, and took a slow step forward.“You never do. Things just happen around you, don’t they?” Seraphina replied. Her eyes dragged over Becca like a blade, stripping, judging, condemning her with such hate that filled the entire room.“Wherever you go, everything burns” Seraphina said softly.Becca’s fingers twitched at her sides, but she didn’t move. “That’s not true,” she said quietly.Seraphina’s head snapped up, her eyes flashing.
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