Chapter 84

When the news hit, I couldn't believe it.

Cora had always been the determined, hopeful young woman in my mind. Just the other day, the doctor said she wasn't in any immediate danger. She was stable.

But now she's ... gone?

My legs buckled under me, and I collapsed. Tremors racked my body, as if I couldn't control them.

I knew what it felt like to die. I had been through it.

When the knife struck m