I waited until the next morning, after Ester came to relieve me of my babysitting duties, to head back into the woods. The path was almost second nature to me now. Unlike the last few times I hiked into these woods, though, I was prepared, and as such, the heels I usually wore had been replaced w...
I had asked that question a dozen times since seeing it etched across the wall. I had yet to receive an answer. Echo studied the stupid writing and, though Dahlia busied herself bandaging the bloodied tips of my fingers, her eyes moved toward the mystery word more often th...
I hated myself for that. Of course, just because I was able to stop myself didn’t mean I was ready for what came next. Owen started to scream; horrible, blood-curdling, heartbreaking screams that cut through whatever thin defenses I had managed to guard myself with. T...
All the frustration I was feeling- years and years of frustration- all let loose in one terrible, fluid movement. He swung back the instant my body twitched, as if he knew it was coming. Of course he did. My staff hit nothing...
It couldn’t be. I was there when Wendy died. I watched her lasts breath, heard her last words. She couldn’t be standing here talking to me, not really. “You’re dead,” I said, looking at her. “Among other things, Cresta Karr,” she answered. Hearing h...