DARLENE
I didn’t feel my legs.
I didn’t feel the cold marble floors of the mansion either.
All I heard were Cindy’s words.
“She’s gone, Miss Darlene... Elder Troy’s wife... Elder Carla... she didn’t make it. She died at the hospital.”
I stared at her for a moment, like I didn’t understand what she just said. But I did. Oh, I did.
My heart dropped. My chest burned. Then my body moved on its own. I ran. I ran without saying anything.
I didn’t even know where I was going at first, but my hands pushed the bathroom door open and I locked it behind me. My knees hit the floor. I couldn’t breathe. I held my stomach as the tears poured down.
“No… no, no, no…”
I buried my face in my hands.
She couldn’t be gone. Carla couldn’t be gone. Not her. She was the only warmth left in this cold plac
