Elena didn’t go to work. She hadn’t stepped outside her room since yesterday. The curtains stayed shut. The room stayed dim. She lay on her bed and tossed, turned, tossed again, like her thoughts were knives and her mattress was the only thing that could dull them. Yesterday kept replaying on a loop she couldn’t turn off. The strange guy smile. Blood on his forearm in thin, patient ,Damien also in blood but carried her. The word *SINNER* burned into concrete, smoke still curling from the edges of the dead bodies.Krystal on a bed, arms and legs spread, ropes biting into her skin, eyes wild. She can't bring it together. Her mind kept trying to force the pieces to fit, but the edges were wrong. Sharp, how will she digest that Damien was in a cult? Not just any cult. Satan’s Heirs. The name tasted like ash in her mouth. She’d laughed the first time Krystal said in the company, “Girl, Mr Wolfe gives off ‘quiet cult leader’ vibes. Elena had thrown a pillow at her and told her to st
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