CHAPTER 55

DARLENE

The entire room was dark. It was completely devoid of every single source of light there was and it was as though I was lost in a tunnel of darkness and mayhem.

"Hello?" I called out into the air, but it only felt like the voice that had responded back to me, was a replica, an echo of my own sound.

I felt it. That impending doom and fear. I felt that dread that latched there around my throat and suffocated me as I tried — in vain— to wrap my head around what was going on, where I was, and how I had even gotten here in the first place.

"Hello?" Echo. An echo back was all that responded back to me and I was taking steps blindly at that point. Each step I took fekt like gravity was doubling with it. I felt heavier, like I was literally having to carry myself around with each step.

What was going on?

The last I remembered was preparing to go to bed, right after my reconciliation with Alexander. I was already fantasizing about how I was going to just go to bed with a smile spread a