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AURORA

I kept watching Ralph as he led us through the passage. I couldn’t ignore my shaky body. Fear radiated all over me that I felt like I was struggling to breathe.

What was that? Did we just escape death? I didn’t want to think about what those people would have done to my little boy.

It was crystal clear that it was me they wanted. I was almost tempted to surrender. I had planned it. That moment when I held the knife forward, I told myself that if I couldn’t handle them, which was not entirely impossible, I would just surrender for my son’s safety.

But surrendering was still not an option. What will happen to my son after that? What will happen to my Jasper? He didn’t know that something was going wrong or that something bad was going to happen.

Just by the little act of everything that has happened, from the gunshots to us being pushed into the dungeon, he would have caught a hang of it if we were in trouble.

Jasper was smart and challenging for a kid like him. How could he be p