Chapter 58

VALERIA. My body starts to shake, my skin prickling with the insane feeling of wrongness. I feel like I'm seeing straight through a funhouse mirror and everything looks mangled and weird. Professor Blossom, the man who was hailed as the bravest protector of the school, the one who saved me from being wrongly accused... is the one behind all of this all along. He looks at me as though he's seeing me for the first time, then he lets slip a smile that I have never seen on his face, ever. He approaches me, touching the side of my face. I want nothing more than to push him away, but I still can't move a single muscle. "Do you know what night this is, Valeria?" he asks softly. "It's the night of the Red Moon." "She's not the one, you bastard," my mom spits out at him. "Let her go! Let her—" "Be quiet," he tells her calmly, and to my horror, her mouth gets zipped shut, like the mere command that  he just gave out transcends into a real action. "It's not the time for you to speak. It's no