WRITER’S POV
The evening air was thick and still amplifying the silence in the room. Audrey sat with her hands folded over her six-month-pregnant belly processing the revelations from her father earlier in the day.
Alicia sat across from her the tension between them palpable though neither was willing to break the uneasy quiet.
Just as night deepened a series of harsh knocks reverberated through the house slicing through the silence. The banging on the door intensified, suddenly there were men rounding up the house.
Alicia’s face blanched. “Who… who would come here at this hour?” Her voice shook and for a moment her eyes darted to Audrey who remained silent her pulse quickening with an inexplicable sense of dread.
The door creaked open and a tall figure stepped into the room. His dar
