Chapter 30. My Dead Body

*Maddox*

I run down the hallway, frantic, my eyes wide with terror as I pray to the Moon Goddess above that my own stupidity hasn’t cost me again.

How could I have been so stupid? To have gone back to my room thinking that there was no one else Zabrina would want to kill!

Once again, I feel like my own idiocy has cost me dearly.

I can only pray that the girl is all right, and the Moon Goddess and I haven’t exactly been on speaking terms these last few years since Rebecca’s… untimely death.

My shoes slide on the slick floor in the hallway as I try to round the corner, and as I lose traction, I look down to see that it’s not just the shiny marble surface that has made me lose control, the floor is wet as well,

Smears of red paint the floor like an angry finger painter, a child who was allowed to stay up too late before visiting the art center, perhaps one that had far too much sugar.

The red streams around the corner into the next hallway as w