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Their ahouls’ eerie smiles vanished and were replaced by hard stares

It was tihouls closest to rippedme doard the tunnel with such speed that I allihoul who’d grabbed hold of his neck Kailyn was already being dragged toward the tunnel in front ofthe canal and back through thetunnels and then headed doard, I knew exactly where ere headed It wasn’t long until we reached the coffin chaht Lucas’ expression, a mixture of sheer dread and terror Dammit! I wished so hard that he had not volunteered and somebody else had stepped up in his stead This would only be my second visit here, but for all I knew, this could be his last

The ghoulsup three coffins in a row They flipped open the lids and wrestled us each inside My coffin’s lid sla me off to the world outside Lucas was in the coffin next to me, while Kailyn was on his other side Kailyn screanarled hand that e around ht that the last time had been unbearable but this… this was ten times worse The first tiinable, which had become my reality for all those hours I’d remained in the coffin, but none of the visions had linked back to the reality that I had known all my life The only connection had been the people I loved

This time, however, it was totally different Scenes fros that I wished to forget, blasting through my mind in more vibrant color and vivid detail than I had ever experienced in real life I was sure that I was being tortured by a different ghoul this time; perhaps they each had their own particular preference of how to torture a person

I relived every second of thefirst to my parents’ penthouse, where I’d shot fro Yas her in cold blood At the time, I’d been in such a daze of bloodlust that I had barely been aware of ish pace, everything was a hundred tirow lih her jugular, before her final release of breath and the sudden deadness of her body

Then I was in the sub humans in South America At the time, I hadn’t even been sure how many lives I’d claimed and who they all were Now I saw it all, every second expanded… and there… there had even been children

No No! I cannot take the rest Stop!

I tried to escape the vision, but I was there The experience was so vivid, I could see and hear everything, practically taste the blood flooding downan ene drowned in the ht so hard to bury deep in o insane

Then, as I felt that I could not take even a minute more, a different kind of scene trickled into my ures stood inside a large circular roo, piled up with dusty sacks of flour It was the inner chaures were Lucas and a wo a loose shirt and dark pants, looking very ainst a ainst hers, his hands deep within the folds of her petticoat She returned his kisses passionately, but as his right hand hiked up higher over her thigh, she broke away

She planted her pal distance between the two of theazed at Lucas

"Wait," she whispered "I need to tell you soa dark brow "What?" he asked, his voice deep and husky

Straightening her dress, she slid down fro her in and touched her feet to the floor She grabbed his hand and pulled him further toward the center of the rooazed intensely into his eyes before saying in a soft, unsteady voice: "We’re going to be parents"

Her expression was a mixture of anticipation and fear as she scanned Lucas’s face for his reaction His cheeks, also flushed like hers, beca his hands from hers, he took a step back His nant?"

She nodded, sliding a palns," she whispered back, even as she looked disconcerted Clearly, she’d been hoping for a different reaction fro

Lucas choked up as he continued to stare at her, duh the man’s brain, but joy certainly wasn’t one of theripping his forearms She tried to pull him down for a kiss but he resisted The poor wo more worried than ever