Victorias pov The echo of the gunfire didn't just rip through my ears, the blaring sound tore through my chest.For a split second, the world fell into a sickening, dark silence.I blinked hard, trying to clear the blur from my eyes, praying that the body falling to the gravel wasn’t the one I loved.subtly, I opened my eyes. It wasn't. "Rosette!" Lucas’s voice didn’t sound like his own. It was a guttural, shattered scream that sliced through the dark.his knees hit the ground before my brain could even process the movement.Rosette was down. Her hands were clamped tight over the side of her abdomen, crimson immediately seeping through her fingers, staining her clothes, staining the pavement.Her lips parted, but no sound came out—just a small, breathless gasp as her eyes rolled backward."No, no, no, Rosette, look at me!" Emory scrambled down beside her, his hands trembling violently as he tried to apply pressure to the w
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