Chapter 71
Her sheets a damp tangle around her waist, she shot up, screaming. No, it wasn't true. She wasn't gone. No. Sweat beaded on her forehead as she reached for her mom's hand. It was snatched away at the last second, a truck coming from nowhere, smacking into her mother's delicate frame. “Sophie!” she screamed, the sound of snapping bones and tearing flesh echoing in the darkness. Her mom was dead.
Panic built up inside her as she came fully awake, rocking back and forth, biting her nails and whimpering in the gloomy bedroom. Blood-filled eyes glared at her from the shadows, everywhere she looked. The meaty sound of metal hitting flesh, breaking bones like toothpicks and tearing limbs like paper haunted her. Breathing in stilted gasps, she bit down on her fisted hand, he
