DEL MORINO
It was unbelievable to me. The words swirled around in my mind like a nightmare until I lost all sense of reality. Terese is dead?
Although the guard had said it in such a casual manner, I felt as though the earth had been torn out from under me. My heart stopped and I felt cold. I needed him to say it again. It couldn't possibly be true. No Terese. No, not her. She was irreplaceable.
“What are you saying?. Dead?” I said my voice was hardly audible above a murmur. I wasn't even sure if I was saying anything. Everything seemed muffled and far away as if the world had closed me out. The guard's eyes were wide as he gazed at me bewildered. However I could only hear that one sentence repeated over and over.
Terese is dead. My mind raced. I didn't want to believe it. It isn't
