Chapter 104

Bria's pov

My feet were rooted to the ground, my heart hammering so hard, I could hear every beat pump in my ears, my mind was a choir of dissonance.

“Hello, Bria.” Paolo drawled, a fiendish glint in his eyes so subtle you'd have to look too closely to see. And almost no one else ever did, not my mother, not the neighbors, not the school teachers.

Except me.

Terror from the past took hold of me. I