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“We improvise it live.” Pauly handed her a slim, battered paperback—Mockingbird, cover worn, pages gutted to hold a wafer-thin transceiver and a micro-SD slot. “Your new copy. Same weight as the real one. Press the title twice if you’re burned; it wipes your last three hours and plays an audiobook. Press the author twice and it pings us with location.” She slid the book into her tote without looking. “And if I press the spine?” “It complains about being objectified,” Pauly said.

Through his cracked windshield the kid observed something flash to the west as he drove, lightning crisscrossing the sky in the distance, but the darkness swallowed it back up with a low rumble. Hearing the thunder reverberate, Julian summoned William Salt into his parlor and whispered, “If anything should happen, kill them. Gather the others. Kill them all, Prarsheen.”—yet failed to notice the way the Indian man caressed the passive little girl’s hair before exiting, a hidden desire in his deep-set eyes. Elsewhere still, also unnoticed, dusky shapes were gliding silently through the birches and oak trees of Shaw Woods, gaunt, ill-defined shapes, newly risen, gathering pace and cohesion, cli

Theo didn’t flinch. “That’s why I’m here. You were never meant to figure this out alone.” I opened the book with trembling hands. And I didn’t say a word when the pages glowed faintly under my fingertips. They pulsed like a heartbeat—soft and rhythmic—then flared, a sudden shimmer of light washing over my skin. My breath hitched. The room faded around me. The voices—Kylan’s, Theo’s—fell away like whispers behind glass.

"You feel like you're floating, watching your body shake and cry on the floor... until they cut out half of your stomach." I looked at his suddenly pale face and asked in a soft voice, "How do you think I know all this so well?"

Without reading the texts, Willow knew the content was insults and hate directed at her. She plopped the phone back into her phone and pulled her coat tighter around her shivering body, a bitter laugh escaping her lips. Such was her life, but thankfully, all would be over eleven days later.

He pressed his forehead against mine, whispering, “Tell me I’m not already losing you.” The walls seemed to close in, shadows thickening, heat rolling like a storm trapped beneath my skin. I wanted to answer, but another vision tore through me, blinding and merciless. A battlefield soaked in ash. Damian’s body crumpling, golden eyes dimmed. My own scream echoing over a ruin of fire that stretched as far as the horizon. The shard purred at the sight, feeding on my terror, until I ripped myself free with a sob.

Chapter 63 3rd POV Sharon’s head was pounding each throb in her skull matched the faint hum still echoing through the cavern.. Her lungs burned as she gasped for breath ‚ the thick scent of sulfur and scorched stone choking her.. She coughed violently ‚ pushing herself upright on trembling hands.. “Alice ‚ Alice‚ Alice!” Her voice cracked‚ laced with panic. “Alice ‚ wake up!” she cried.. A groan sounded a few feet away. Sharon crawled over the rubble‚ her fingers scraping jagged stone until she reached Alice‚ whose face was streaked with soot and dark ash..

"It's fine, even if it's stained." Her cheeks turned a deeper red. She giggled, then suddenly got pulled out of view. Off-camera came the unmistakable sounds of kissing and breathless laughter. The comments scrolled faster and faster, one line catching my eye—'I swear I just heard Ian Sutherland's voice.' The man's voice came again, colder this time. "I'm not." The livestream cut off abruptly. I set my phone down and drifted back into sleep.

I swiped it on and put it on speaker since I was finishing some dishes. “Hello, this is Rae.” “Rae, this is Tyler Perry,” a voice said. “Ha-ha-ha, that’s funny, did Cynthia put you up to this? She’s quite the jokester,” I said ready to hang up. “No, it really is Tyler, I can put you on video chat if you don’t believe me. Look Cynthia gave me a copy of your book, and I have to tell you, I’m obsessed. I couldn’t put it down and I think your story is incredible.