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“You.”

“Who chose you first?”

“You.”

Dante circles her clit. Rhys tightens his grip.

“And who did you come back to?”

“All three of you.”

Jealousy flashes. Then disappears. A year ago, that answer would have wounded me. Now I understand. Sloane does not divide herself between us. She chooses each of us completely. I thrust deeper. Rhys kisses her neck through his mask. Dante bites her nipple. Sloane’s body tightens.

“Close,” she gasps.

Dante moves faster. Rhys whispers against her ear.

“That’s it. Let him hear you.”

“Let who hear me?”

Rhys looks toward the churchyard.

“The dead.”

Sloane laughs. The sound breaks into a moan. I pound into her aching pussy. Her laughter becomes a scream. Pleasure tears through her body, tightening around my cock until I lose every piece of control I learned during the year. I come with her name ripping from my throat. The bells ring. The gate shakes. Dante’s hand remains between our bodies until every tremor passes. Rhys loosens his grip on her hair. I hold Sloane against my chest. She breathes against the stitched mouth of my mask.

“Did I earn tomorrow?” I ask.

She touches the gold ribbon wrapped around my fist.

“You earned another year.”

Dante leans against the gate.

“What do Rhys and I get?”

Sloane’s eyes travel over them.

“Take me back to the chapel and find out.”

Rhys’s skull turns toward the center of the maze.

“You can still walk?”

“No.”

Dante lifts her from my arms. She yelps.

“I’ll carry her.”

I reach for him. Sloane catches my wrist.

“Share.”

The command stops me. Rhys supports her legs. Dante holds her shoulders. I walk beside them with one hand resting possessively against her stomach.We carry Sloane away from the graveyard while she laughs beneath the harvest moon. The hunt is over. The night isn’t. Last Halloween, I entered Blackwood Farm wondering whether my screams could wake the dead. They never rose from their graves. But as three masked men carry me back toward the chapel, I smile into the darkness. The dead slept through my screams last Halloween. Tonight, I intend to be louder.

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