CHAPTER 54: THE MESSAGE

Gasping upon seeing her face, I can't believe that I'll see her again.

"Serena?"

"Don't I look like myself?" She sarcastically replied with her arching eyebrows.

"But I thought you were taken by the dark entity?" I confusingly recalled what Mellon told me about her situation.

"It's me, you silly girl."

I paused. That name-call.

It's not the Serena from this timeline. It's the Serena I know!

"Is that you?" I tried sitting up, but the pain in my stomach had me dragged back down in bed. "Damn it!"

"What's wrong with you?"

Sighing, I calmed myself and the throbbing pain before speaking. "I was attacked by an unseen force, and it took Eric somewhere in your world."

Panting, I recalled the last things I remember.

"And Eric, there's something wrong with him. It's like, he's possessed by something," I added.

The look in his eyes will haunt me for the rest of my life, I can still feel the chills he gave me when he grabbed my foot.

It's not him, I know. But I saw the monster that was living ins