Famous Last Words Cw Farnsworth Novels & Stories

"'Edward never chooses the door everyone expects.'" Silence. Ross looked from one wire to the other. "If we're wrong…" Oliver finished the sentence. "We die." The tunnel became unbearably quiet. Finally, Ross spoke. "I'm making the decision." Everyone looked at him. "If we stand here arguing…" "...we're dead anyway." He slowly reached toward the yellow wire. Emma couldn't breathe. Liam silently prayed. Oliver closed his eyes. Ross cut the wire. Nothing happened. For three terrifying seconds... No one moved.

"Beloved husband, father, and son. Taken too soon." The words felt hollow. She had not chosen them. A cousin she barely knew had picked the inscription, a woman who had shown up to the funeral in expensive shoes and left before the graveside service was over. Raven had been too young to argue, too numb to care. Now the words mocked her. Taken too soon. As if there had ever been a right time to burn a man alive.