Chapter 18

NOAH

My eyes opened to a gut-wrenching pain. It felt like being continuously banged in the skull by a hammer. Not piercing but excruciating blunt pain. My head all of a sudden weighed a hundred and ten pounds. There were trails of blood on the wooden brown floor. The ceiling was slightly growing bigger and shrinking. Pain from the shards of glass on my back had numbed. There was an uncanny quietness in the air. The last thing I recall was Olivia striking me in the head with her clenched fist. My hand felt wet. As I slid it beside my head, on rolling eyes I saw blood smeared over it. Must have been from the glass. My body sprawled on the floor I wanted to get up but it felt too heavy to drag. Consuming the mere left energy, I dragged myself to the wall and reclined my back over it. Shit! No … no!

“Liam! Liam.”

Liam Laid in front of me. His white polo shirt was drenched in the red fluid. A large piece of glass stood on his abdomen. Part of it was somewhere in his intestines. Several