GENESIS

I blinked my eyes open and immediately squeezed them shut again as harsh light stabbed through my lids. My head throbbed like someone had taken a hammer to it. My mouth tasted like blood and dust.

Slowly, I cracked my eyes again.

The ceiling above me was high, coffered, familiar in the sickest way possible.

I knew it, I used to stare at it for hours when I was locked in here as a child.

I was in my old bedroom at the Caldwell Estate.

My heart slammed so hard I felt it in my throat.

“Sleeping beauty finally awakens.”

The voice was venomous, mocking, dripping with something unhinged....