Eight Seconds

“Cora, wait—”

“Just let her walk away,” Trent snapped behind her. “Nobody wants her around here anyway.”

Cora’s teeth sank hard into her bottom lip as the venomous dismissal from her own flesh and blood followed her across the floor. A dull ache settled in her chest, stinging worse because the cruelty came straight from her brother's mouth. More than anything, though, her heart shattered for her