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Chapter One

Ice-cold water rained down on

“Tessa! Wake up!” The coasped

Blinking the water out of otten in the shower It took a second for aze stared down at me

I reached for the knob with a shaking hand and turned it all the way hot “Jesus That’s the fifth night in a row” My voice wobbled

Hands held ainst a hard chest, and I knew fro me under the streahttime routine

He kissed the top of et the doctor”

“No! Don’t do that Ever She’ll co that would turn this bad situation worse, it was Dr Gonzales and her littleof horrors

“Do you re?” Meredith asked She sat next to the tub in our small shared bathroom

I shook ht had been like this since I escaped from la Aquelarre’s compound I hoped it was sohworse

I only remembered pieces of h to tell her My visions had never been so vague, but they’d been changing ever since Dastien bitI thought they were gone for good Then, the visions ca to have one And then—weirdest of all—I’d started seeing stuff that happened in the future

The only thing I’d seen since Luciana stripped one instead of Claudia, everyone at St Ailbe’s would’ve died

I took a deep breath and iretted it “Do you smell that?”

Dastien ran his hand acrossthe hair out of my eyes “Smell what?”

“Sulfur”

Meredith and Dastien stilled for a moment

Shit If the s ofup for next ti?”

“No, cherie I don’t s off the water, and then stood up, pulling et into so this isn’t happening isn’t working” Water dripped on the floor as heto his body like a second skin, showing off each ripple in his muscles He stripped off his shirt and threw it in the tub with a wet plop before wrapping hirabbed a second towel fro it open