Present Day:
“When we were finished with the ritual, your mother said you slept for twenty-four hours straight. She was terrified that what we had done to you took your soul away, and I worried it would do it too… Seraphina didn’t care at all one way or another.” Grandma swallows hard as she nods her head slowly and then takes another sip of her tea.
I sigh and sniffle as the memories of that night come flooding back to me. “I don’t understand… Why was I the sacrifice? Why did it have to be me?”
Grandma sighed and shook her head slowly at me. “I don’t know why it had to be you, sweetie… Seraphina was adamant that you had to be the one… She actually demanded that it be you.”
I feel Max tense beside me on the sofa. He had been silent this whole time, but Grandma’s words made something
