Chapter 91

It's not right. It's wrong to be the only one still standing. Like me being the only one alive is a betrayal.

It doesn't feel right because out of us all, I'm the least useful. I couldn't stop any of them from dying. Or perhaps it's because this is all my fault. I'm the reason they are all decomposing in the ground beneath my feet. I'm the one who Orion wants to get to.

I'm just as responsible for their murders as he is.

Darkness clings to me like a cloak. If people could see auras, then I'd be shrouded in black. Like the mist that surrounds Hekate.

"Alora," Kaizer's eyes are bloodshot and glass. He waves me to stand next to him and his father, the minister of my parents' funeral.

I can't move from my spot. I'm frozen just like they are. There's a large lump in my throat that I can't swallow down-it only grows the more I try to speak.

Finally...the final words I'll say to them comes out..." My mom-she was born in Las Marías, Puerto Rico. She and her brother moved to the U.S. after the