Chapter Nineteen I rested my head against the frigid ground. It wouldn’t be much longer now. I was numb all over. My breathing had slowed. My heart was…
Chapter Eighteen I’d never been inside something so black. I couldn’t see anything. It wasn’t the way it is when you close your eyes and patterns swim in…
Chapter Seventeen I stood over the body of Graham in the interrogation room at the police station, exactly at the moment after I’d been taken out of the…
Chapter Sixteen I stole a glance down at the pool, which was dark and still now. Azazel was staring off into the distance. She looked defeated. Graham shoved…
Chapter Fourteen Azazel sat down on the floor of the stone room. “That’s what they want, Jason. That’s what this test–what all of these tests–are all about. They…
Chapter Eleven My mother was cutting up raw meat on a cutting board in our kitchen. Candles flickered from the chandelier overhead. I slouched in the doorway, watching…