KAI’S POINT OF VIEW."Aurora!" I choked out, my hands trembling as I gripped her shoulders, my heart barely beating as the seconds passed by painfully slow.She didn't answer either of us, not yet anyway. Everleigh and I watched with fright as her body convulsed once, and then twice, her back arching off the bench as the antidote collided with the poison in her racing through her bloodstream so it could get to her heart.I remember watching many kids die to this very thing; my mother would kidnap them while we were in Spain, and force me to watch as they writhed in pain until they died. She told me she needed someone to carry on her work if she ever passed, and as her son, I should have the honor.She had not cared that she’d scar me with the horrific memory of this. All she needed was a successor as sick as she was. I watched, breathless, my heart twisting painfully until I had a headache, as the black, vine-like necrosis that had been racing toward her heart began to wither and pull
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