Chapter 56 Mom Is Gone!

• Maya’s POV
• I woke in a swell of darkness, the shape of shadows pressing in around me. For a moment, I lay still, my heart hammering against my ribcage, trying to remember where I was. Then the sound of soft, ragged sobbing cut through the hush, and my eyes flew open.
• Moonlight pooled on the stone floor, pale and cold, reflecting the tremble in Marissa’s shoulders. She stood in the doorway, her posture was rigid, her face streaked with tears. The air between us crackled, charged with unsaid horrors.