Chapter 49

Out of my life with a snap of my fingers.

When I heard the noise coming from the living room, I ran there to find him on the floor, pale as a sheet of paper, staring at the fire as if the blazes were ghosts haunting him. Since we found each other I’ve never seen him so out of his bearings. He didn’t answer me when I called, so I went to him, kneeling between his legs and sitting on my calf. I put my hands on both sides of his face, and it startled me how cold he was.

“Vlad,...