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Chapter 856

Chapter 66 : Scattered Pieces

*Eliza*

Aman, wild and crazy, frantically waved the Cryptex around.

His eyes were bloodshot.

His lips moved so fast that they were a blur, but I couldn't hear what he was saying.

My heart hammered in my chest as I watched him freak out.I'd never seen that man before, but there was something about him that was familiar.

His hair...his eyes...the curve of his face....It reminded me of someone...someone....

"Eliza?"

Jared's voice rang in my head like a gong going off inside my skull.

Then it fell silent again and I was staring at the wild man with the Cryptex.

He threw it on the ground, spittle flying from his mouth in fury.

Raging, he dug through the drawers in the desk behind him.

He pulled out a hammer with a determined smirk.

Dropping to his knees in front of the Cryptex, he brought the hammer down heavily.I winced as though the hammer had struck me too.

The Cryptex flashed a blinding gold light and shattered.

The pieces scattered.

My vision faded in a swirl of heavy mist.

I was planted to the ground, my feet like tree roots holding me in place.

The mist swirled and parted, showing a new vision.

The man who smashed the Cryptex lay on the ground.

His body was bent in an impossible position, eyes staring dead ahead, blank and lifeless.

Blood dribbled from his mouth; his clothes were soaked in it and a puddle of thick crimson glistened around his immobile form.

My hands started to shake and I looked down at them.

Those weren't my hands! Unable to stop myself, I ran toward the man's body, dropping to my knees beside him.

Tears wet my cheeks.

They weren't my tears.

Someone else, another woman, was mourning this man's death, and I was along for the ride.She reached out to him, a fatal mistake.

Black ink tendrils burst from inside the dead man, clinging to my arms —her arms like sticky spider webbing.

The tentacles curled around her arm, burrowing through her skin and sinking deep inside.

"No! What's happening!"

My mouth moved, but the voice that came out wasn't my own.She clawed at her arms trying to pull the inky tentacles away.

Once they got hold, they vanished inside so quickly, leaving faint traces of tattoo marks behind.

Those tattoos-I recognized them.

They were the same tattoos that Jared had.

Groaning, I could feel the ink latch onto her blood, sticky and thick like plaque in the arteries.

became sluggish and

through her, creeping into

wailed, her arms instantly going to

barely starting to show

I was

I seeing what had happened through her

the curse passed to his mate and then to Jared because she

My vision shifted again.

knelt in front

Alexander, or Prince Alexander as he was back

woman I was trapped inside ran her

leaned in and brushed the tip of her nose against

home soon, right?" Alexander

know I can't stay

My heart sank.

a lie

I could

Xander

"I love you."

"Love you too."

hopped off into

went back to the garden, crushing dead flowers with his

recent loss of his father, but he was completely oblivious to the fact that he’d

innocent to realize what horrors existed in the world, and he was about

Poor Xander.

collapsed in a

the mist took longer to

by bricks, pulling me onto the ground until I was

arm and through

hand and arm felt swollen like I'd been stung by

of my body

I squinted my eyes

I opened them again, I was

like I was something out of the depths of hell.I expected that.I'd seen what had happened to my hand before I was swallowed by total darkness and cast into a world of dreams, visions, and shadows.I

belongings, which

blue eyes pierced my own, waiting for me to say something,

get rid of me now" I said to both of them, my

Jared, leaning my head against his head.He took

and from across the fire Abe chuckled, then blew out

were you messing

to," I replied, my voice full

deranged," Abe

"What happened?"

then laid me down on a bedroll,

"I...saw things..."

I told you,

collect more firewood?" Jared asked, shooting

himself but left the cave in pursuit

glanced around and saw a large stack already neatly

"Eliza, are you okay?"

eyes studied me, his mouth a thin line.It was like he was waiting for

just sorting through

the side of my

rest.Abe and I will handle setting up

He patted the bedroll.

I let myself

ached from when the Cryptex had latched onto

lay on my side to avoid putting any pressure on that side of my body and

Jared mulled about, taking stock of all the supplies that

river after me, damaging a lot of the food and gear we'd brought with

could be saved was around

a heap near the entrance

me a cup of

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