Chapter 36: Fractured Truth

The grip around me loosened and I fell to my knees just as my captor collapsed beside me, blood pooling beneath him.

I looked up gasping for breath.

And that's when I saw him.

Standing at the door with a gun still smoking in his hand.

Elias.

Alive.

And smiling.

"Miss me?" he asked, tilting his head.

The world spun.

All that I had known, all that I had been hanging onto crashed in an instant.

Hailey's POV

The room spun around me, and panic beat like a war drum in my chest. Elias stood before me, flesh and blood, with a distorted smile playing on his lips. Impossible. He was supposed to be dead.

Vickson moved first, instantaneously raising his weapon. "You shouldn't be here," he said fiercely.