Chapter 21
I stir, opening my eyes slowly to my room. I’m in bed again. How many times have I blacked out in the last couple of weeks? I grimace at the soreness of my abdomen. It’s as if I did a hundred or so sit ups. I let out a groan and stretched my aching arms.
A gasp leaves my lips.
I’m glowing. My skin is luminous and incandescent. I feel like an actual glow stick used in concerts or parties. Was I snapped in half? Or worse… did I die and become an angel of some sort? That can’t be though. I’m simply not kind enough to go to heaven. I look under the thick blanket and notice that I’m glowing through my clothes.
Panic began to set in when out of nowhere in the dark, a hand pushed my hair back comfortingly. “Shhh, Maggie, it’s okay.”
Startled, I squint in the darkness to see Ba
