Chapter 84

It was shiny like they had been soaked into a bowl full of glitter. I looked at the tiny bottles as we drove back home. The cure.

It was finally in our hands, but somehow I couldn’t help but wonder if we made the right choice. Was the cure going to cause a feud between brothers and friends just like Agnes said? Was it going to bring death? Was it going to get to its final stage of completion?

“If after forty-eight hours the blood of a willing hunter is not mixed in the potion, the potion ceases to be active. And don’t bother about coming back here to look for me... because you won’t find me.” She vanishes into thin air after laying the potion on my arm.

I looked at the potion again. It had already been mixed with my blood and that of Nico’s. Now it was up to my Dad.

Forty-eight hours.#

I held on to it tight, like my next wake depended on it.

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“Are you sure about this ?” Nico looked at me with concern.

I nodded. “It’s now or never Nico.”

“You know the last time all three of us we