A Birthday and a Burial
She lifted his chin with her nail and murmured, "Soon, he won't even remember you."
Her lips twisted into a smirk, her eyes glinting with cruel amusement as she added, "Starting today, everything you have belongs to me."
Behind her loomed four rogues she'd hired. Their stares were venomous, their bodies reeking of decay. They'd pinned me to the ground, my arms and legs bound behind my back, leaving me immobilized.
Carly wore a pair of spotless white canvas sneakers. She stepped toward me, clutching a syringe. The silver needle gleamed in the light. Inside, the syringe was filled with dark blue wolfsbane.