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Asher took the lead with I behind him and Roger at my back. He shut the door, but paused his hand on the handle and furrowed his brow before he looked up at Asher. “The demoness must give Violet great strength to have destroyed the room so completely.”
Asher cupped his chin in his hand and shook his head. “I don’t believe things are as they seem, but let us hurry downstairs.”
We walked down the hall, but had only made it halfway when I felt my foot strike something. That something snatched my leg and I whipped my head down. A scream escaped my lips at the sight of a ghastly pale hand that stretched out from beneath one of the wider tables and clutched onto my ankle. Asher yanked me away and snatched the wrist while Roger grabbed the other, and together the men pulled out my att
