Chapter 69

My heart came to a complete stop when I snapped my eyes open and I couldn’t feel Liz anywhere closer. She broke her promise; she broke our deal. Dread crept in me, and I loathed this foreign feeling, but it was like that with her, fear always knocking at my door, skulking around and a maddening sense of helplessness. I strode through the house like I was preparing for the battlefields to find Anton in the living room, eyes closed and concentrated, with a bluish glow around him.

“Anton!”...