Vanessa
I needed a minute. Honestly I needed more than a minute but it was all I could do not to burst into tears of relief watching the door rip open and seeing Nico stand there.
Without caring about anything else, I headed right past him and straight towards the door.
The last thing I wanted was
To cry and wail in front of strangers. Worse, people that all felt completely calm like we hadn't all just threaded on the path of death and came back.
Martin had been shot but he looked unborthered. Carmen was the same a stoic expression on her face even as we all stared at Nico who was half covered in blood.
Who knew how many people he killed?
It was all maddening but the worse was when I headed down the stairs passing by the entrance. Hating the fact that I didn't look away before it was too late.
Blood splatters were everywhere along with the bodies they came from which had all been piled to the side.
