Chapter 82

The sun blazed overhead, but Blair still felt cold. "Oops! Sorry, miss. I didn't realize you were still here. I thought there was no one here." Although the cemetery maintenance worker apologized, the grin on his face gave him away. Blair realized what was happening and smiled bitterly without saying a word. She should have known that Gregory and Beatrice hadn't made her kneel for the sake of it. In fact, they'd been setting her up for this all along. Seeing her lack of response only made the worker's grin turn nastier. He walked away, then returned with a spray hose. Standing at the second-floor landing, he pointed the nozzle down and cranked the valve. Blair initially thought it was raining, but then she noticed the rest of the area stayed bright and dry under the blazing sun. She looked up to see the same worker with the hose spraying it in her direction. She gritted her teeth and endured it. … An hour later, her lips turned pale, her legs went numb, and she could barely fee