Chapter 236

The gunshot cracked through the abandoned factory like thunder splitting the night sky.

Time slowed to a crawl. Siena Vargo—Siena Hayes, wife by blood and vows on a hospital roof—felt the sound before she understood it. The sharp report echoed off the rusted metal walls, reverberating through her bones, through the fragile life still clinging inside her belly. For one suspended heartbeat, she thou