Cora (Dollar) POV
It was hard to push that shooting behind me; I really did try.
Ruby made it easier, but we did it exactly as planned, even though I hadn't thought we'd need to. Could Ruby have shot Bruce if I had been captured?
I don't think so; she screamed so much when he first grabbed her, and only reduced to sobs when the gun hit her cheek. But I was proud of Ruby for dropping when I said I had seen a shadow in the hall and hoped it was a guard or someone who could come and save us. I thought we were going to cause a distraction and give them time to enter.
But when I grabbed the gun and pointed it at Bruce, at that moment I had no intention of firing it. But when Bruce called me gutless and weak, like my mother, I had to show him neither of us was weak. This was for my mother,
