Michael’s POVFor a second, everything ceased to exist like reality had been violently cut away and I had been left standing in the hole aftermath. My arm remained extended, frozen in the exact position it had been in when the trigger gave way beneath my finger. The gun trembled uncontrollably in my grip, metal slick against my palm, its weight suddenly unbearable.My ears rang, not a sharp ringing, not even pain, just a hollow, suffocating silence, like the sound had detonated inside my skull and taken everything else with it.Then Fernando collapsed.It happened too fast and too slow all at once. His body jerked, stiffened, and then folded in on itself, strength abandoning him as if it had never been there at all. His knees hit the floor first, the sound dull then his body followed, slamming sideways against the floor with a finality that made my stomach twist violently.Blood followed immediately, too much of it.It poured from the side of his head, spreading outward slowly.I st
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