Chapter 234: My Old Friends Reese I had not known what I expected when I heard the laughter behind the door. I had not expected my stepmother. I had not expected the woman we buried to be standing ten feet away with wet hands and a dish towel, looking at us like we were the ones who had come back from the dead.Cassandra fought my hand the second I pushed her inside. I kept my palm firm over her mouth and walked her backward into the hall, Roman and Sav close behind me, the door swinging shut on the quiet street. Cassandra made a muffled sound, loud enough to carry.“Cass?” The voice came from deeper in the house. Familiar. Too familiar. “Who’s there?”Footsteps. Fast. Then she was in the doorway.Dahlia.For a second she only stared. Water still dripped from her fingers. The towel hung from one hand. Her eyes moved from me to Roman, and something old and sharp crossed her face. Then they landed on Sav, and whatever softness had been left in the look hardened into something else.
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