Chapter 20

After the incident in Eloim’s bedroom, he refused to sleep there alone. Actually, he would barely ever be away from me.

I was keyed up.

It was hard to believe what had happened in that room, what I had seen. I was questioning everything, from my perception of death, religion, all the way to my sanity.

Every night, Eloim would refuse to go to bed without clinging to my chest, so I let him and lied beside him. I would close the lights and read a book on my phone...