Chapters (29)
The three of them walked out the door, and Felix went with them.
The paramedic looked back at us, and found us all in shock. He frowned. “One of you can ride with us, but the rest will have to find another way.”
Riding with them. In the ambulance. Or driving in a car. Outside of the house. I looked to Luther, whose mouth was wide open. Beside him, Theo was cursing under his breath.
In the driveway, they again took Felix’s vitals before loading him up into the back of the ambulance.
Theo was the first to step outside, tiptoeing over the threshold, shirtless and shivering in the cold. Luther joined him, smiling and taking deep breaths of air in. He crossed back inside and grabbed my hand. I stepped out with him, wobbling on my feet like a newborn calf.
Brynn's eyes were wild, and she took a tentative step inside the doorway, and then another. She stepped back, out onto the porch, and then inside again. And again. “It’s broken…holy fuck. It’s broken!”
You will forever share a lifeforce, each of you keeping the other alive. It had never been about the goddamn house. It was about the curse. Felix had kept the curse alive. He was the curse. He just happened to be in the house when the spell happened, and so the house became part of it. Now that he’d died, even for a second, the curse died along with him.
Except Felix was stronger than the curse. Life was stronger than death. And that goddamn credence was the strongest of all. I looked over at Theo and Luther, both standing on the porch with Brynn now.
“Go,” shouted Theo, bringing me back down to the reality of the moment. “We’ll come as soon as we can.”
Felix still needed me. With everyone’s blessing, I rushed to the ambulance and jumped in the back. While I was grateful for my other men to experience freedom, it didn’t mean anything to me if I didn’t have all three of them to enjoy it with.
They had brought him back to life. Now it was just a matter of if they could keep him amongst the living.