All Chapters of Spellbound by Obsession: Chapter 11 - Chapter 12

The rain fell over the city like a gray veil, washing the sidewalks but not the filth from my soul. I was hidden in a dark alley across from Lara’s parents’ house—they had taken her back, as if it were possible to simply put a demon back in the box from which it escaped.The hood of my jacket was pulled forward, my hands shoved in my pockets like an addict in withdrawal. I had been waiting for three hours. Three hours standing in the rain, watching the lit windows on the second floor where I knew she was. My phone vibrated again in my pocket—Sarah, for the seventeenth time today.I ignored it, as I had done with all the other calls. The only thing that mattered was behind that door.The front door opened and Lara emerged, wrapped in a black cape that seemed made of living shadows. She wasn’t alone. A young man—a college student—was with her, laughing at something she had said.A wave of possession so violent took hold of me that I almost screamed. My fingers clenched around the knife