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"We must marry, my love," she breathed

Lucas looked physically sick "No, Anthea," he staain "No! This was not supposed to happen"

He moved toward the mill’s exit

She hurried after him, her expression forlorn as a lost fawn "Lucas, what are you saying? You love me, don’t you?"

This Lucas did not answer

"Wewith despair "We an to spill from her eyes "I bear your child, Lucas Your child!"

Her cries rang through the chamber as Lucas turned on his heel and bolted from the mill

The scene faded out, and was ih a dark, wet forest with the stealth of a vae of a cliff A sodden graveyard lay beneath, griraveyard was eth hair A young Jera but a thin cotton shirt and pants Holed shoes gave little protection for his feet The boy was gazing down at a white tombstone I could just about make out a name etched into the stone: Anthea Monrov

Pain seared through houl’s hand relinquished its hold The lid to h houl, standing over my and Lucas’s coffins She had her hands above either one of theht hand shot out and grabbed me by the throat while her left dipped into Lucas’ box and yanked hi by the neck, he’d becoain His eyes had lost the shine they’d started to develop and now looked utterly dead Kailyn was lifted out by a second ghoul, and the two of theh the entrance as I had been expecting, but through a door around the back of the coffin roohouls thrust us inside and ere all far too weak to even atteain as they left us and slaone to think much about the last two visions that I’d experienced--visions that belonged to Lucas, not ed to experience thehouls had placed us in this s us to where we belonged It took a Herculean effort just to focus on a single thought for more than a few seconds All I wanted to do was close my eyes and sink… deeper, and deeper, down to the bottom of the pool…

Ben

Like after the first time I’d been tortured, I knew instinctively that I had to keep my eyes open no matter what I had to keep myself conscious I could not sink into the deathly lull that I was fated to I had to fight, and I had to fight hard