a trapped bird. The house was dead silent, but there was a faint, sickly glow emanating from the hallway. A thin sliver of light under Willa’s bedroom door.
Every terrifying, irrational fear I had ever harbored roared into life. I didn’t think; I just moved. I crept toward her room, my bare feet silent on the floorboards, my breath hitching in my throat.continue reading …