The Game He Played With My Heart
The small white snake coiled against my hand, cool and alive, and the room blurred into the old memory of a locked storage room, boys laughing outside the door, something moving in the dark near my ankle.
I jerked back so hard I hit the cabinet behind me. My shoulder cracked against the edge, and my breath came in short, ugly bursts.
Vivian rushed over and scooped up the snake as if it were a ribbon that had fallen from her hair. "Oh my God, Snow slipped out. Eliana, relax. She's a corn snake. She doesn't bite."
Nico laughed under his breath. "She looks like she saw a ghost."
Luca stood, but instead of coming to me, he looked at Vivian first. "Did you know she was scared of snakes?"
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