CHAPTER 0258

AUDREY'S POV

The loud gunshot echoed through the whole room, sharp and deafening, bouncing off the walls like thunder in a storm. My ears rang as silence followed, but it wasn’t the kind of silence that came with peace, it was the heavy, dreadful kind that pressed down on your chest and made it hard to breathe.

Hold on.

Am I not supposed to be dead by now?

My mind raced in those stretched-out seco