#Chapter 396: Turned

Nina The phone dropped out of Lori’s hand with a clatter, and for a moment, I felt my heart drop. As I looked at Lori, I began to fear the worst: that Jessica had died in the hospital. But when Lori uttered those words, I felt as if the world was tilting beneath my feet. “It’s Jessica,” Lori said, her face slowly stretching into an incredulous, shocked smile. “She’s awake.” I couldn’t believe it. Just yesterday, the doctors had said that she had more internal bleeding. When I saw Jessica just a few hours ago in the middle of the night, she was practically on death’s doorstep. And my impromptu Claiming ceremony, my haphazard and last-minute attempt to turn Jessica into one of us in a desperate plea to save her life, hadn’t worked. I could still feel her cold and limp hand in mine, could still see the bruises on her face and her poor body wrapped up in white casts. It hadn’t worked. Right? I blinked, unable to process the information. This couldn’t be some sort of jo