I opened the door and?—
I staggered back from an assault of dizziness, grabbing the door for purchase.
“Whoa…” I rasped. “What?—”
Shadows, shadows, shadows.
They walk here and there, not dark. Not dark but made of light. Full of light, full of sunshine.
Solar shadows.
I saw Tony’s face, the gold tooth melting, metal spilling over his lips.
Solar shadows dancing. Blazing, blinding. Waiting, pressing against the doors of their prison. Strange and scary and inside me.
Let me take control,Tony’s voice purred in my head.
There is fun to be had here, a job to be done.
I stumbled straight into Riley as I left my room, yanked out of whatever that just was.
“Isaac?” He held my arms. “Are you okay?”
Tony? Tony was here inside me? Magically?
No. He couldn’t be. He couldn’t be.
“Isaac?”
I blinked, coming around to myself. “Shit.” Haziness passed through my skull, my vision blurring for a moment.
“You don’t look good,” he said. “You’re burning up.”
Him before me, Ollie behind me, my legs about to give out.
“I need to sit.” I went to the bed, aided by both guys.
Let me take control…
Tony grinning, liquid gold dribbling down his chin.
The gold tooth! There must have been something about it. Right? Oh, fuck! I didn’t know.
I felt squirming in the pit of my stomach, like a ball of snakes. Making itself known, a lurker out in the sunshine, an invader who escaped celestial rejection.
Something with a touch of Tony.
Tony…
Tony…
Tony…
“He’s in me,” I wheezed, my throat burning like it did when I’d been on the bed in that darn house. “Tony’s inside me…he’s?—”
I collapsed.
Chapter 33
