CHAPTER 36. WORSE THAN ME
I stared at him, my chest heaving with shallow, ragged breaths, while he stared back at me. The silence in the room was thick, suffocating, like the air before a lightning strike. He stood by the edge of my bed, his presence looming large and grounding in a world that felt like it was spinning violently off its axis.
"What is it, honey?" he asked again, his voice low and laced with a concern that felt almost too heavy, too intense. "You’re shaking. Tell me what’s wrong."
I tried to speak, but my tongue felt swollen, heavy in my mouth. I slowly turned my body, trying to hide the tremors racking my frame, but it was useless. The Entity inside me was a furnace, stoking a fire in my blood that threatened to consume me whole. I adjusted my hair, tucking a strand beh
