Chapter 259

• “I want to see my baby! Let me see my baby!” Anna screamed. Laughter turned robotic and sickening as it was breaking over. Fire erupted all around her, she felt as if it was in her lungs every time she breathed.
• Once again, Anna was shoved back harshly just before a creature could get their claws around her legs and drag her with them. She fell down through the ground and woke up gasping in the real world again. She gripped the clean white sheets around her and tried to calm her breaths before it made her lungs burst open.
• It was all… familiar again. This was the real world—it smelled like Lucas and roses. It smelled like sweet vanilla. It felt safe. She was safe, none of that was real—was it?