The gun fired.
Everything exploded at once, shouting, movement, bodies colliding in the dark, I couldn't tell who was running toward me and who was running away, someone hit the ground beside me and for one terrible second I thought it was my mother.
"Elena."
Adrian's voice, right in my ear, his body coming down over mine, pressing me flat against the concrete before I could resist, before I could think, before I could do anything except gasp from the impact.
"Get off me."
"Stay down."
"Adrian"
"There's a shooter, stay down."
Another shot cracked through the harbor, closer this time, the sound bouncing off every wall, I couldn't tell where it was coming from, the darkness had swallowed everything whole.
"My mother."
"I don't know."
"Where is she?"
"I don't know Elena."
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