The Dead #2 Cover Novels & Stories

I knew better; the fish I gave her was boneless. Jane's lips trembled as she tried to steady her voice, "That's because the nurses cleaned her up before they brought her here." "Cleaned her up, huh?" My voice turned icy. "Then answer me this: after death, the body cools, starting with the limbs." I pressed down on my daughter's rigid arms and belly. "So why is her stomach colder than her arms and legs?" I yanked up her sleeve to reveal more than just cold skin. "Livor mortis already? That was fast."

When I woke up the next day, it was already noon. Sharon came over with a flattering smile and wrapped her arms around me, her voice impossibly gentle. "Honey, I made a whole table of your favorites. You're gonna love it." I calmly pushed her away and pulled back the blackout curtains. The moment the room filled with light, her expression tightened. Her eyes locked onto the suitcase by the wall and the Aurelian C-2 certificate beside it. Her face drained of color.

"A-Aria is truly beyond saving, Alpha Carl." Carl's eyes were completely bloodshot as he roared in refusal, "That's impossible! Aria can't be dead! It is surely another one of her elaborate ploys, a grand attempt to trick me!" Carl carried Aria's lifeless body to his bedroom, a place he had always barred Aria from entering since he claimed that she was tainted. He, however, was personally carrying her into his bedroom now that she was dead. He then ordered the maids to thoroughly wash Aria's body and change her into a set of clean clothes.

He stood over my corpse, his face a cold, blank mask. "There," my childhood friend, Dr. Hayes, stammered, pointing at the table. "Found in the marshlands, near the border of the new territory. It… it has your family crest." Killian’s gaze locked onto the tarnished silver necklace on the corpse's chest. He had placed it around my neck himself when we were mated. It was carved with the Reynolds family crest. I died clutching it. I thought it would bring me home. Killian strode forward. He reached out with his bare hands and ripped the necklace from my corpse.

I was already dead. The moment I stopped breathing, I felt myself drift up above the room. Looking down at the body on the floor, I knew it was me, yet it also felt strangely unfamiliar. I saw my face filled with agony, and my body was a bloodied mess with eyes wide open in terror. What was most ridiculous was that even at the moment of my death, I had still hoped Blake would remember the good in me and come save me. Yet, at that very moment, Blake was at the hospital with Rosie, gently comforting her as she received an IV drip.

Not for any reason, but I realised the death plague hades brought along wasn't gone yet, even though Hades was. Word Count : 751 Sing Of Choice : Dead to Life By Ecstatic Ft Krigarè Ask Your Questions :

💿 Disc 2 Sub Theme : Walking Into Death's Alley (2) . I look at her again more closely this time and I can't believe I missed it before. Dripping down the side of her neck are two long trails of blood. They flow down her neck until they reach the collar of her white shirt soaking into it. My stomach coils at the sight of the blood and I have to fight back a gag.

My heart skipped. I moved closer, scanning the titles until one name leapt out at me like a struck nerve. Dead Viles… The moment I read it, my stomach twisted to nausea. I pulled the text free and opened it, my fingers trembling despite myself. Unlike Lunareeth, this book was filled with dense writing, diagrams etched in faded ink, and warning seals pressed into the margins. Dead Viles. A deadly, ancient poison. I started reading about it, and the more I read, the more my heart shuddered with a cold chill…

She took a staggering step back. Ariel stared in stunned silence as well. Because the piece Cecilia had just unveiled was none other than "Into Stillness", the long-lost bottom half of Elena's two-piece series. All this time, aside from the series piece Jayson had bought overseas for tens of millions of dollars, there had been no trace whatsoever of "Into Stillness". So how did Cecilia get her hands on it? The missing half was the key to destroying Sarah once and for all. Elena had promised Halread University two paintings—the top half, "Dawnstay", and the bottom half, "Into Stillness". But only the top half was ever delivered. The other had mysteriously vanished.