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“What the heck is going on?” Olive shouted. She moved to the window, and she clutched her hand to her chest. “Faye! Anthony has her!”
Sloane, Dove, and I moved behind her, and then I saw her—Faye, bloody and beaten, cradled in Anthony’s arms like a fragile doll. My stomach churned with horror and disbelief at the sight, and I felt bile rise in my throat.
The door was left open, and we could hear everything.
“I’m so sorry. I tried to go away. I keep messing everything up. I didn’t want any of this to happen. I was just trying to disappear,” Faye’s voice trembled with fear and desperation, her words barely audible over the chaos around us.
Anthony’s voice cut through the tense silence like a knife, cold and unforgiving. “I hear you’ve been looking for me,” he taunted, his eyes glinting with malice.
Yarder’s jaw clenched as he stepped forward, his expression dark and determined. “Yeah, we have,” he replied evenly, his voice barely concealing his fury.
Anthony’s lips curled into a sinister smile, sending shivers down my spine. “Faye was supposed to be at the gym, not Olive,” he sneered, his tone dripping with venom. “Though it was okay that Olive blew up.”
Yarder’s gaze hardened; his resolve unwavering in the face of Anthony’s twisted games. “Are we supposed just to let you off the hook then? You got the wrong girl so it doesn’t count?” he shot back, his voice low and dangerous.
But Anthony’s smile only widened, a chilling glint in his eyes. “No, but that’s why I made some new friends,” he taunted, his words sending a cold chill down my spine. “You might know Boone and Gibbs. They said to tell you hi.”
And then, in one swift, horrifying motion, Anthony raised his gun to Faye’s head and pulled the trigger, the deafening sound echoed through the air like a death knell. Faye’s lifeless body crumpled to the ground, a pool of blood spreading around her like a macabre halo.
Shock and horror washed over me in a sickening wave, leaving me paralyzed with disbelief.
Olive let out a strangled scream and grabbed the windowsill. “No! Faye,” she shouted.
Tears blurred my vision as Sloane and I caught Olive in our arms before she crumbled to the ground. My heart broke at the sight of Faye’s lifeless form. I hadn’t met her, but I knew she didn’t deserve this. No one deserved to die like that.
Another crack of gunfire sounded in the air, and Anthony fell to the ground next to Faye.
I searched around, looking to see who had fired.
Fade stood to the left, his arm raised and his gun pointed at Anthony’s lifeless body.
Thunder sounded in the distance, and a crack of lightning streaked across the sky.
Chapter Twenty-Four
Fade
The rain started to fall, washing away the blood.
Sirens sounded in the distance.
Faye and Anthony lay lifeless on the ground, and one thing was for sure.
The shitstorm had arrived.
