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Co and eventually reached voice awith no answer This tie

"G-Grandpa, this is River I hope you’ve been reunited with Lalia by now I’ to tell you that I’m fine I can’t sayto try to make it back to you, or back to Mom, as soon as I can Please just try not to worry aboutmy love to you, Lalia, Dafne, Jamil and Mo deeply It felt like sorandfather would check his voicean to hurry back along the winding streets toward our guesthouse When I entered the reception area, there was no one sitting behind the desk I headed for the staircase and ran,the corridor upstairs until I reached the room

I was about to knock on the door when I noticed that it was ajar

Pushing it open, I looked around

Ben’s bed was eone

Chapter 2: River

I rushed to the bathroom That too was e table The note and the bottle of ripped e hisscrea through my veins, I shot out of the roo continued It was co around it, I forced the door open and barged in

It was all I could do to not scream too

The room looked like a scene out of a horror movie The bodies of three nized as the man who’d sat at the desk There were deep puncture marks in their necks, their bodies splattered with blood

And in the far right corner of the roo woainst her thin fraulps of her blood

"No!" I croaked "Ben!"

I threwhiirl That was not the wisest idea though because even if I ular Instead, I placed one pal his head steady, then positioned o," I begged, whispering into his ear His eyes narrowed, and I could feel shudders passing through his body as he drank But then the scent of an to take its effect Apparently I s his appetite After four irl