Chapter 104: The Possession

Serena POV

It started with the pauses.

Those strange, hollow moments when Leo would go quiet mid-sentence, his eyes unfocusing as though he were listening to something just beyond the room. At first, I told myself it was exhaustion. Trauma. The aftershocks of the spirit world clinging to a child who had seen too much.

But Ava knew better.

He’s not alone in his head, she warned me on the third day. Something is leaning closer.

Leo sat at the low table in the ...