Chapter 144: The Talisman

Vaughn’s POV

Sleep wouldn’t come.

I laid in the dark for ages, waiting for an exhaustion that should have dragged me under hours ago. A full day and night in the dirt by the grave. Nothing in my stomach except for a sandwich that had gone down tasting like ash. My body should have succumbed to sleep.

But every time my eyes slid shut, the same thing was waiting behind them, patient as ever.

It was