VALERIA
For a moment, I'm in utter confusion. Did I end up in the wrong place and being tortured by someone? Or did I arrive at the right place, just to be played with by one of the supernatural kids like Stefano and myself?
I don't know what the hell is happening. There are still so many holes about this Society thing and how I actually got here, but I have no time to make sense of them because yet another threat is coming my way.
Auric, who has now taken the form of my mom, smiles at me and uses a distorted version of her voice to say, "Welcome home, darling."
Something inside me breaks, something that I never knew was there until I see him imitating my mom, mocking me. Hate. Pure hate.
It's Jeremy all over again. The familiar rush of strength and energy overcomes my body, and befor
