A Darkness Below by Jo Cassidy

Author:Jo Cassidy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Monster Ivy Publishing

CHAPTER 26

Dad reached over me and slammed the book closed. “This is nonsense. Tessa is not sacrificing herself.”

“Of course she’s not!” Leya had her hands in fists like she wanted to punch something. Probably Reed.

Marcel scooted away from Reed, inching himself around the table and closer to me. He swallowed, doing his best to look at me and not Reed. “You’re supposed to sacrifice yourself?”

I wanted to pause the conversation, not wanting to talk about me sacrificing myself. I mean, it was completely ridiculous and out of the question. Not to mention totally cliché. “Reed, why is Corrine with you?”

“Is that really important—” Reed began.

“Yes!” I took a few deep, calming breaths. “Enough with your games. What is going on over there, Reed? You were in color, then gray, and now you’re red. Corrine keeps asking for help. Who else is there?”

Reed swung his head back and forth, humming a twangy melody while he was thinking. He finally rolled his eyes. “Okay. Fine. Let’s just say it’s crowded over here, okay? Lots of people.”

“What people?” Sheriff Hayes asked.

Marcel licked his lips. “Are we just going to skip over the sacrificing bit? Seems like really important, right?”

“Why won’t you tell me?” I was losing my patience with Reed.

“I’ll take that as a yes,” Marcel mumbled.

“I’m still trying to piece everything together,” Reed said, annoyance in his tone, “but what we can gather is that everyone who has died in Willow Marsh since that fateful night back in the sixteen hundreds has been stuck here in The Gray.”

I sat back, taking that in. Everyone? Like, everyone?

“How is that even possible?” Leya looked from me to Reed, to me, and back to Reed.

Reed waved his hand nonchalantly. “There are so many theories. I can hardly keep track.”

"Chloe." I swallowed. "Reed, has Chloe Heathrow shown up there?"

He lifted a shoulder in a shrug. "Not that I know about, but I'm also not entirely sure who that is."

I clenched my jaw and took a few breaths, trying to stay calm. "She's Duncan's nine-year-old daughter."

"The answer is still no." Reed glanced over his shoulder at something on his end before turning back to us, a slight terror in his eyes. “Things are changing. Andras is separating everyone and putting together his army.”

Army?

Reed clapped his hands, the fear dwindling in his eyes. “Now, back to sacrifice.”

Dad held up a hand. “This is just a legend. It’s not real.”

“Oh, but it is.” Reed leaned toward us, causing Marcel and Leya to shirk back. “And it’s going to happen whether you like it or not.” He rubbed the bottom of his beard. “Tessa is the only one with the power to stop Andras and get everyone out of The Gray. It’s that simple.”

I stared at the ring on my finger. “Killing myself doesn’t sound simple, Reed. It sounds stupid.”

“Definitely stupid,” Leya put in.

“Besides, it just says ‘a pure and selfless sacrifice.’ Not I have to sacrifice myself.” I stared at the blood dripping from the wrists of the girl in the picture and my insides tightened.

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