Chapter Nineteen
CHERYL never knew she could feel so sure and unsure all at once. No matter how much she doubted herself, she had to trust in what she had read.
Lights swept over them so bright and white that it made it as difficult to see around them as the darkness had. The creature that had been inside Betty was coming. Cheryl felt its approach. She was so swept up in the terror that she had already seen that she didn’t even notice what was coming up behind them until she saw the fear in Chloe’s eyes. Slowly, she twisted around to look over her shoulder and saw a tall, featureless man walking toward them, his body made of translucent, bubbling, sloshing liquid. She looked at Adam, and in the light, noticed his skin was marked with red like he had been burned.
“Everybody, look at me,”
