Chapter 150

MALACHI 89 MINUTES BEFORE THE LIGHT GOES OUT Giorgios cocks his head to the side and narrows his eyes. “Did you hear that?” I shake my head. I heard nothing. “I think they have finally come for you.” Please let it be true. I’m not sure how much longer I can stand this. The wraith’s answering screech is ear-piercing and bloodcurdling. During the last however many hours or days I’ve been here, watching the wraith float in and out of here while Giorgios remains frustratingly nearby at all times, I’ve learned that is how the creature communicates. The despair is still overwhelming, but it lessens when the wraith isn’t here, and I have somehow nurtured the tiny flicker of hope in my chest into a small flame. That’s the only thing keeping me from trying to tear off my own head. “I have deployed them now,” Giorgios says and follows it up with a cruel laugh. Deployed who? What the fuck is going on? “Welcome home,” he says as he opens the steel door to the basement. “I expected you sooner. Poor