Total pages in book: 121
Estimated words: 114617 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 573(@200wpm)___ 458(@250wpm)___ 382(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 114617 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 573(@200wpm)___ 458(@250wpm)___ 382(@300wpm)
Badr flicked from me to my hand. “Everything you’ve said is terrifying, Volana. That my brother was murdered. That our father sanctioned it. That he planned to get rich and powerful from the spilled blood of his own kin. That there’s some mysterious shadow person at the heart of all of it,” he said. “It’s all horrific and it has to be stopped—”
“Yes, exactly. That’s why—”
“—or it would if any of it were true.”
“What?”
Badr picked up the shovel.
“Wait, no!” I cried, shooting back. “It is true. Every word I said was the truth!”
“You were very convincing, Volana,” he said, towering over me. “You had me hanging on every word, but there’s only one problem. If any of this happened, I wouldn’t have heard this for the first time tonight because my brother—my friend—would’ve told me.”
“Badr, listen—!”
He swung the shovel. The last thing I saw was metal before pain burst in my skull.
I WOKE UP MINUTES—HOURS—DAYS later under a mound of crushing darkness.
I screamed.