Chapter 125

GIDEON

For a long, endless second, all I could do was stare at that crude wooden box buried beneath six feet of hell, my breath a sharp rasp in my throat. My heart was a drumbeat of terror, pounding so loud it drowned out every other sound in the forest.

Brooks’s hand brushed away the last of the dirt, revealing more of the casket’s surface, and something inside me cracked wide open.

Because th