GINGER
I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know what to say. I felt truly, utterly helpless.
After the howls stopped, long after they’d taken Sophia away, Terri fell into a heap and hadn’t moved since. She just lay there. Her body was eerily still while her eyes stared out into nothing. Comatose.
I could still hear the snap. Still picture the way Sophia’s body had hit the ground. Still hear the sound the axe made as it severed her cervical vertebrae. Still see the guards dragging her away. That moment would be forever burned in my mind. While I thought I’d gone through a lot in my life, nothing had even come close to what I’d just witnessed.
My stomach twisted with a sickening realization. When Sara had tortured that man—the one she had captured and interrogated for answers—I had hesita
