Page 293 of Oracle Returns: Time will Stop

Before she could get any closer, Julian grabbed his wife and pulled her back from it.

“What?” Bishop asked, looking around. “What do you see that we don’t?”

Honestly, they were damn lucky they weren’t seeing this—especially Bishop.

She was living next to this.

“Holy fuck,” Julian muttered as they both saw hands appear, as something tried to claw out of the tar-like stain that was both a hole and wasn’t.

Tori told them.

As the sound made her ears want to bleed, she somehow got the words out.

“It’s like a pit of souls. They’re being absorbed into this darkness. Like dissolving like they would in a stomach. They’re trying to get out.”

Jesus.

That was horrible.

Now they understood when Avalon said if they got out, they wouldn’t be the same.

“Wynter is in there?” Honor asked. “In that hole of souls?” she inquired, crossing herself for good measure.

Tori nodded.

“I think so. I think they’re all in there. There’s a tear in that plane, and they’re trying to get out.”

Immediately, she crossed herself, and she wasn’t even catholic.

Oh, and that told them how bad it was. When you were borrowing from other religions to protect yourself, there was a desperation in that.

There was one thing that Tori and Julian knew for sure.

Ridge could never live here again.

“This place is dangerous,” Julian admitted. “That’s a portal of some sort. A foul one.”

Tori kept catching those flashes from her peripheral, and she had no idea what they were, but they were getting wilder the closer she was to that inky hole.

“Well, may I suggest that we get out of here and somewhere safe. I don’t like this feeling,” she admitted.

Well, if his wife didn’t like the feeling, and he didn’t like the feeling, staying was NOT an option.

Not.

One.

Bit.

As they made their way out of the house, Bishop was sick to her stomach.

Her home wasn’t far away, and while she couldn’t feel that darkness here, Lucian would be able to. It scared her that it would be drawn to him.

He was psychic, and the last thing she wanted was for her children to be near this.

Trust and believe, they WOULD BE moving.

Outside of the mansion, Tori could finally take her hands off of her ears.