Chapter 63

NADINE

A day to live, and the air was already stifling.

I stood before my office, gazing at the simple white envelope as though it were a hot wire ready to sear me alive. My heart pounded against my chest, an anxious rhythm that only increased the more I gazed at it.

God. No. Not again.

I retreated a step. My lungs constricted, air sticking in my throat.

The last I got something like this, my enti