With a deafening crash, Serenity's eyes flew open as white-hot agony tore through her body.
Yet against all odds, she was still alive.
A dozen firefighters converged on her position, and only then did she realize there had been a drill happening downstairs. She had landed squarely on their air cushion below.
She had no external injuries from the fall, but the brutal impact left her dizzy and disoriented. Her body screamed in protest as if every single bone had been broken in the process. The dramatic plunge had been captured by countless news cameras filming nearby, while the men upstairs fled in complete panic.
When the fog finally cleared from her mind, she used the Brooks family's considerable influence to smother the scandal completely. After her discharge from the hospital, doctor
