deformed bone

"I want to talk to her."

Calvin said.

His face was so pale that it seemed transparent, and the unreal feeling about him when he spoke was even more like a ghost than a ghost.

"But it doesn't really make any sense..."

Reed observed Calvin's expression, he hesitated for a while before speaking.

Then he asked Calvin's side face to look into the distance. As dusk fell, the hotel buildings looked hideous and gray under the vulgar neon lights.

After confirming that Madeleine was no longer wandering outside the motel, he started the car.

Calvin remained silent until the two arrived at their newest abode, a vacation home by the lake.

After seeing the vacation home, it's easy to see why Reed gets the discount.

The house was right on the lake as the motel guy said it would be, and it did have a private dock leading to the calm, clear lake.But it is, quite inadvertently, located in the deepest part of a bay on the shore of the lake, not far from the rest of the resort's cabins.There is no asphalt driveway, and the road leading to the hut is a dense gravel road. The trees that have not been pruned for a long time stretch out their branches unscrupulously, and ravens and other unknown big birds build their nests on the branches of those trees. From time to time, a few long and hoarse calls were made.

"This road looks more like it should lead to the witch's mansion."

Reed stared dumbfounded at the road, and the looming house at the end of the road, and then said dryly.

But he drove the car in anyway, and parked the car on the front lawn of the wooden house instead of the garage.

"This place is quiet and secluded."

Calvin opened the car door and got out of the car, then he looked up at the horrible house that seemed to be built in the colonial period, and said softly.

"You want to say that even if Madeleine comes here, it will be difficult to alarm others, right?"

Standing shoulder to shoulder with him in front of the house, Reed responded.

"Maybe?"

Calvin whispered uncertainly.

After Reed and Calvin looked at each other, they walked towards the room at the same time.

The moment the door was pushed open, a stale smell of dust rushed over, and Reed quickly turned on the light—thankfully, there was no problem with the power supply here.

Calvin subconsciously felt that he might see a scene full of dust and spiders crawling around, but under the dim light, there was only a little dust in the holiday cabin, no matter from the decoration or furniture, it was the most ordinary holiday The way a house should be.

"This is really a relief," Reed said to Calvin, patting his chest, "I thought I would see a haunted house."

Calvin couldn't help but glanced at him—just now Calvin had the same thought as Reed's.

They were quickly settled in the house, and before nearly twelve o'clock at night the two of them had made the whole house comfortable to live in.

There were three bedrooms in the holiday home, and Calvin chose the one at the end on the second floor, but that night when he lay in bed before he could fall asleep, he heard familiar footsteps and the sound of the door opening.

"I'm having trouble sleeping."

Reed slowly climbed onto Calvin's bed, and then he whispered softly in Calvin's ear.

Calvin turned over, he was a little surprised to find that he could still see Reed clearly even in the darkness.

Before waiting for his answer, Reed reached out his hand on his own, and he held Calvin's wrist under the quilt.

"tomorrow."

he whispered.

"I'll find Madeleine tomorrow, and I'll bring her here."

Calvin felt that Reed's body temperature was being continuously transmitted to his body along the intersection of the two limbs.

"I thought you disapproved of my idea," said Calvin.

"But I know you do want to talk to her," Reed replied, "You're a nice person, a kind person, and sometimes you can be a little troublesome, but that's what makes you so charming .”

When he said the last sentence, Reed's tone became dark.

Calvin turned his head to look at Reed, his expression seemed a little strange at this moment: "Do you think I want to see her out of kindness?"

"Isn't it?" Reid opened his eyes wide in surprise, which made him look a little childish, "But you've always missed that little girl..."

"Those things that happened to Isa are tragedies that I will never be able to let go of," Calvin interrupted Reed, "but it is precisely because of this that I will never be able to forgive Madeleine, you are wrong, I Never had sympathy for that woman, in fact I loathe her. If you use the word 'hate' to describe how I feel about her it's ok, knowing if she hadn't joined that stupid sect, probably Isha would be alive now .”

Speaking of Adventism, Calvin once again felt the heavy suffocation that made him unable to breathe.He didn't even realize that his expression was becoming cold and ruthless.

Reed's gaze stayed on Calvin's face. Under the dim moonlight, Calvin's dark purple pupils became extraordinarily dark and deep.

Reed had to fight desperately not to kiss Calvin directly on the lips, his hands clenched, and then he ran his fingertips over Calvin's fingertips and the back of his hand.

"So, what do you want to do?"

Reed lowered his voice, hiding his burning passion and obsession.

"I feel bad, Reed, I'll never forget the last time I saw Isa... I've been having nightmares," Calvin murmured, "so I have to find Madeleine, I want to look her in the eyes and tell her that it's all her fault—her ignorance, stubbornness and weakness that brought an innocent girl to such a tragic fate. No one has any reason to put Sending their own children into the hands of the devil, even though they claim to be deluded."

"I can't allow it, I can't do it, let her go crazy like this, and easily escape this kind of spiritual torture."

Calvin said unusually coldly: "That woman is guilty, Reed, she is Isa's mother, she pushed Isa to hell...she needs to be punished."

……

Madeleine bent her body and sat quietly on a park bench.

The night was dark, and the moon softly projected silver light on her body.The kind people at the motel had given her some macaroni and donuts for dinner, so tonight her stomach was full and there were no more pains from hunger cramping.

She stared blankly at the moon, then thought of Isha again.

Madeleine knew that her mental state had become very bad.

Since a few months ago, on a Sunday night, when her mentor pushed open the door of the prayer room with a solemn face and told her about Isa's death, Madeleine has been in a state of sobriety and confusion at times.

The Adventists told Madeleine that Isa was a victim of the Angel Town fire.

"It's really a big, big tragedy and may the Son in heaven bless these sad souls."

Madeleine can even remember what the nun said at the time.

Later, she was taken to the morgue, which was a cold place with stainless steel cabinets neatly leaning against the wall, the light was so pale, and the air was filled with a disgusting burnt smell.

Madeleine stood there, thinking vaguely that this was not the place for a little girl like Isa to stay.But then she saw someone pull open a cold stainless steel cabinet, and there was a light blue body bag inside.

Those people opened the zipper, and what came out of the body bag made Madeleine incomprehensible—how could such a small, charred thing be her cute little girl?

Her daughter obviously has beautiful blond hair and round cheeks like buns, and there is a very shallow dimple at the corner of her mouth when she smiles.

But how could the "thing" in that damn plastic bag be her Isha?

Madeleine remembers screaming.

She felt cheated, it was impossible for her to admit that it was Isa - in fact, until she was kicked out of the sisters' home, Madeleine did not admit that the charred body was Isa's remains.

She felt that Isa just got lost accidentally. After all, she didn't like to run for the Son of God from the very beginning, and she was such a naughty little thing.She must have escaped on the way, and things were chaotic after the Angeltown fire, so the Adventists got things mixed up.They mistook someone else's child for Isa, they just got it wrong.

Since then, Madeleine has been paying attention to everything around her very carefully. Isa is a naughty child. She just wandered outside for a long time, so she can't find her way home.

Madeleine prayed to the Holy Son more devoutly than ever before, to the only angel in the world, and let that naughty child go home early.But for some reason, the Adventists still kicked her out of the sect.Maybe it's because Catherine has been stubbornly asking them for her own Isa?

Later, Madeleine kept wandering in the shelters and the streets, and she was looking for Isa very seriously.

Although sometimes, she will suddenly wake up at a certain moment and realize the fact that Isa is probably no longer alive.

Then she would hug her knees and cry out like this, she would cry until she was exhausted and then fell into a deep sleep, and when she woke up, she hoped that she would stay in a state of madness.After all, when she was crazy, her Isa was still alive somewhere in this world for her...

Madeleine's crying sound echoed in the park like the crowing of night crows. The tramp dared to provoke her.

But on this night, Madeleine's crying didn't last long, because a person who was completely unexpected came to her.

"who is it……"

Madeleine rubbed her red and swollen eyes and stared blankly at the man.

In the backlight, the other party's face appeared so blurred.

"Madeleine, it's me."

Calvin stared blankly at the miserable woman in front of him.

"I want to tell you something"

In the distance, another man, taller but more blurred, was standing quietly by the side of the road.

The moon is so bright, but it seems that there is no way to illuminate the small area where the man is standing. The man's shadow is crawling on the concrete floor, it is so dark...

And the shadow of Calvin is the same.

"Yes, is it you?"

Madeleine stared blankly at Calvin, she finally caught a glimmer of light in the chaos, and then she finally recognized Calvin.