I heard them planning my death… right above the room where they had locked me away. “By tomorrow morning, they’ll find her frozen body by the river.” That was my aunt’s lawyer speaking. He thought I couldn’t hear him.
midnight, the basement windows were sealed behind six feet of snow. My fever climbed. Each breath scraped my chest, and blood from the extraction site had soaked through my sweater. Still, I stayed awake, following the estate’s cameras through the hidden network I had built while Helena was in treatment. In the library, she toasted … Read more