BOOK4 Chapter8
It was only then that he felt the creeping dread, his hair standing on end.
Pushing past the forensic examiner and detectives in front of him, he finally saw the battered corpse.
As the weight of realization crashed down on him, Jackson fell to his knees.
My body had already begun to rot, maggots writhing in the wounds.
My hair had grown long, covering my chest, and the crushed amulet still hung
around my
neck. neck.
Thankfully, the amulet was made of silver, so the thugs hadn't taken it.
Otherwise, with my face so disfigured, no one would have recognized me.
Jackson leaned on the metal railing for support, struggling to get up from the floor. He reached out, trying to touch the slight curl of my lips.
His eyes were red, and tears-cheap, worthless tears-fell one by one.
"How "This
could this..."
can't be..."
He grabbed Zoey by the collar, his face twisted in madness as he demanded, "Where's Jenna? I'll apologize to her, okay? Does she think this is funny?"
Zoey shook off his grip in disgust and pointed at the amulet, sneering, "Do you really Partial Love Series Ashes Bezrei
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think she would use your baby to play games? Have you been a monster for so long that you've I've forgotten how normal people think?"
as if shocked, his hand dropping away.
Jackson recoiled as
He finally remembered-this amulet was the one he had bought late at night,
pounding on the door of a jewelry store until they opened.
After Rachel had crushed it, I had searched every jeweler I could find to get it barely restored to this state.
He once told me to throw it away, promising to buy a bigger, more expensive one, but I stubbornly refused.
"If you replace it, it won't be the same. It's not about the money-once it's melted. down and remade, it's gone."
"Don't worry about it; I'm just glad it's been restored this much."
"Jackson, I'm so happy. We're going to have a family soon."
No, this
can't be happening!"
Jackson suddenly threw himself onto my corpse, shocking everyone around him. He kept touching my wounds, trying in vain to heal them with his hands. "Jenna, Jenna, it's all my fault. You can hit me, yell at me, just don't scare me like this, please...
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"You were always fine before. Please get up, okay?"
"Baby, we promised we'd have a child together, remember?"
"I've been such a fool, Jenna. I'll get the best doctors. You'll be okay!"
"I really know I was wrong..."
I watched that crazed man, and the numbness in my heart turned into a dull ache.
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