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Rolling my eyes, I wiped my face and went back to reading.
And immediately wished I hadn’t.
This whole time I’d been telling the guys I had nothing to do with Sophia’s disappearance. And that I didn’t know if the Demon had anything to do with her disappearance.
Finding out that Sophia had seen the Demon hit me…was making me doubt that.
Some of Stellan’s friends were over today, being assholes like usual, and I heard them teasing him about his crush on Delilah. And the fucker denied liking her. When I’d just seen him kissing her.
What an asshole.
If I was with Delilah, I’d never hide her. I’d want the whole world to know I was the luckiest girl in the world to have someone like her love me.
Stellan doesn’t deserve her.
I wasn’t feeling brave enough to tell her how I felt, but I’d wanted to see her. So even though it was nine pm and her scary ass dad wouldn’t let her stay out that late, I thought I could at least knock on her window or something.
I snuck in between our houses and went up to her window, only to see her dad standing with his back to the window in her room.
“What the fuck do you think you were doing today?” he asked in a calm voice that was fucking terrifying.
I’d been with Delilah all day. I couldn’t think of anything we’d done besides our usual bullshit. Certainly nothing that would have gotten her in trouble. Or else I never would have allowed it.
I didn’t want anything to prevent me from seeing her.
Delilah’s face was perfectly blank as he spoke, with no sign of life in her beautiful eyes. She looked dead inside right then, and I shivered as I looked at her. Delilah was reserved, but there was always a spark in her gaze with me. Right then, there’d been nothing.
All of a sudden, her dad reached back and then slapped her in the face. Hard. The force of it sent her flying back towards the wall. The crash reverberated through the glass I was looking through.
I squeaked, and he started to turn towards the window, like he’d heard the sound. I’d thrown myself into the bushes, my breath coming out in gasps. I waited in those bushes for what seemed like forever, until I finally got the courage to peek over the windowsill and see if they were still in there.
The room had been empty.
Mom had asked me why I was covered in dirt and how it had gone.
And I was too stunned and in shock to have a good answer for her.
How am I going to talk to Delilah about what I saw tonight?
My heart was thumping as I read through her entry. Because I could remember that night. At first, the Demon hadn’t hurt me. He’d been trying to lure me to his side. But as I’d gotten older, and I’d started to push back with his requests—beatings had definitely been involved.
I quickly turned the page, shivering when I realized I’d found it, the entry from right before she’d disappeared.
“Stellan,” I whispered in a choked voice. “This is it.”
He dropped the journal he’d been reading and scooted closer to me. I ignored the way the warmth of his body made me feel.
Dear Diary, Tonight I’m going to tell Delilah how I feel…and then I’m going to save her.
Stellan was gripping the journal so tightly that I was afraid it was going to fall apart in his hands. There wasn’t much else to read in the entry. Only that she was going to sneak me out of the house and call the police…and then confess her undying love to me.
But obviously, none of that had happened.
So whathadhappened?
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Sophia
