His Savior Was Never My Sister
He simply held the detonator aloft like a perverse scepter, his message clear.
The bright sunlight outside the chapel doors was a shock. His black sedan idled at the curb, a beast waiting. He opened the rear door for me. I paused, looking at him over the roof of the car. The madness was still there, but beneath it, I saw a flicker of something else—a desperate, fragile hope.
“Get in, Victoria,” he said, his voice rough.
I slid inside the leather interior, the door thudding shut with a sound of finality. I was a prisoner in silk and lace, riding away from my salvation, back into the heart of the storm I thought I’d escaped.