Shattered Hope

~SIENNA POV~

Rafael loosened his fingers, and my limp body crashed onto the hardwood floor.

I hit the boards hard, skin tearing across my knees and palms. Air rushed back into my crushed windpipe with a ragged, whistling gasp. I choked, coughing up stringy saliva while my chest heaved in agony. Beside me, the slaughtered waiter lay motionless in a widening lake of his own dark blood. The thick,