Chapter 210

SIENNA

The car came to a violent, final halt. The air was thick with burnt rubber, smoke, and the metallic tang of fear. The silence that followed wasn’t peace—it was the suffocating pause before something final, something fatal. I could taste dust and terror.

My entire world had narrowed to the three small bodies pressed against mine. Celine Jr., her face buried in my chest, was wailing—a high