CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
HEAVEN IS REAL
I tried to keep my mind calm, keep the screaming I had heard when I’d been in the cells from my mind. If I thought of the screaming, I’d think of the burning, of the pain I would endure one Alice led me into the lab.
My hands shook, sending tremors through my body. and I struggled to calm my nerves.
You can do this, Chas. Again, the voice I imagined in my head to calm the anxiety was Leigh’s. You have both light and dark. You can do this.
I saw Alice staring at my hand. It stopped trembling, as if her glare was an off button. Her eyes found mind.
“Please don’t wet the floor,” she said.
My mouth gaped and I looked at her in bewilderment. She had no compassion whatsoever, and I wondered if this was what Lord Crane had meant when he said some of them b
