[FINAL CHAPTER]
Time seemed to fracture as the word echoed in my mind. The page pulsed under my fingers, its surface warm and alive, as though it held a heartbeat of its own. *Choose.* The word resounded again, louder this time, demanding an answer.
Jimmy was upon me now, his creepy decaying standing tall over me, his face splitting open in a twisted grin. "There’s nothing to choose!" he bellowed, his voice a cacophony of screams and whispers. "You’re already mine. You always have been."
The page trembled under my fingers, while it's light became to grow stronger & brighter, cutt!ng through the suffocating darkness. The whispers from the book surfaced, competing with Jimmy’s taunts, each side pulling at my mind. My thoughts fragmented, the memories of the pact I made with the fraternity and the horrors that followed crashing over me like an angry see wave on a stormy night.
Nora’s voice rose above the darkness, sharp and urgent. *“Fight him Evelyn. End this. We could be free. The page holds the key.”
I closed my eyes, focusing on her voice, anchoring myself to it. My...