Chapter 35: WHAT DO YOU WANT?

"Where are you going?" Xina’s voice trembled with panic as she watched Gary rise from the bed after his unsettling conversation with her father. She couldn’t believe what she was seeing—his body seemed to be trembling, and his usually calm blue eyes had turned a deep, ominous black. Was she imagining things? There was no way his eyes had actually changed color… right? "Kill him," Gary growled, his voice dripping with menace. For a moment, Xina was frozen in shock. The word 'kill' rang in her ears like a death knell. If anyone else had said it, she might have laughed it off as a dark joke, but there was nothing funny about the way Gary said it. He was serious—deadly serious—and that terrified her. Without thinking, Xina scrambled to get out of bed. She needed to stop him, to do something before he did something irreversible. But as she rushed toward the door, she tripped over her own feet and would have crashed headfirst into the wooden frame if Gary hadn’t caught her at the last se