Chapter 88

He let out a breath of relief then shook his head. “I swear by the time this whole thing is over, I’m going to either be hyper alert… or have died of a heart attack along the way.”

With my own heart obstinately refusing to stop pounding, I nodded in complete agreement.

We trudged further inside the door and drew to a horrified halt once again. The room was a large morbid mural of death stretching out from wall to wall. The floor was not only littered with broken glass and bent metal; body parts were strewn across the floor. And as if the scene itself was not terrifying enough, I looked down and found a dismembered arm right where I would have put my foot down next. I knew I was about to be sick. I raced back out the door and bent over a bush, retching. The images in my head played over and over again like a movie on a loop. Even though I actually hadn’t stepped on the arm my mind kept playing what it would have felt and sounded like.