Chapter 1The ContractI never thought I’d sell my soul for medicine and a few more months with my mother—but here I was, shaking like a leaf outside Blackthorne Tower while it rained throughout New York streets One year. Sign the papers. Save Mom. Then disappear.The words echoed in my head like a desperate prayer I no longer believed in. My cheap coat clung to my skin, soaked and heavy, while I gripped the simple white dress they’d instructed me to bring. On the other hand, my phone burned with the latest hospital notification—the one that listed another $28,000 in unpaid bills. My fourteen-year-old sister, Lily, had cried herself to sleep again last night. I could still hear her suppressed sobs through our thin apartment walls. Dad had abandoned us years ago, and there was no extended family, no safety net, nothing. Only this.Even if this door led straight to the devil, I had to walk through it.I took a deep breath that did nothing to calm my racing heart and stepped inside.
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