“No, you won’t. Because Belle is the only reason you have any control over me. Without her, youknow I’ll have nothing to lose.” I wait for her to argue, but Xena just stares at me. “I f*****g knew it.”
I smirk and take a step.
“I wasn’t talking about Belle,” she says.
Then she turns the gun on Elise and pulls the trigger.
Since the moment Elise and Howard stepped out of the closet, I’ve been frozen with horror. I thoughtIceland was far enough away from Xena to be safe. I thought I’d sent my baby sister to a place whereshe couldn’t be touched by the chaos I brought into her life.
Everything happens so fast and so slow at the same time. Xena raises her arm and that only takes ablurred fraction of a second. Then I hear the bang, and that sound echoes for an eternity. I’m
