Chapter 159

• What Will We Do?
• We move fast, making light work of scaling the stairs, getting through the house, and down into the secret passage to the underground via the library nook that used to be Colton’s and I’s bedroom. Seeing this room, free of our things and bed, almost breaks me. My soul is throbbing with the loss of his presence and the knowing I won’t be able to see or touch him until we do something about this curse.
• I feel like he’s gone somehow, that I’ve lost him to something I don’t know how to fight, and this room where we began, where he first marked me, stabs deep into my heart and soul and wounds me to the core. My anxiety and pain rise like bile in my throat, threatening to choke me. I must heavily inhale to push all the chaos to my inner depths to stay calm. I stifle a sob as Sierra pulls back the concealed door behind where the bed used to sit, and Meadow grasps my hand in comfort, her face ashen and stiff.