The Reckoning

Ferrara

"Fuck"

The curse wrenched from my throat internally, because I couldn't even summon a goddamn word, not to speak of screaming it.

Determined to find Katya wherever the hell she was hiding and get us out of here, I took the risk of going to the window,

It was after all halfway through being shattered by those bullets, which still hadn't stopped.

It was a hell of a miracle that none had torn a hole in my body.

The fire in the curtains had taken the ceilings with them, burning fiercely, but apparently not enough to throw the goddamn door open and let us out.

My attempt to open the window ended with my fingers being caught in between the metal and a hard wall.

Fuck fuck fuck!

The smoke had penetrated so much into my lungs that I was choking on my own breath, my vision getting more blurry with each passing second.

I tried to shake off the blurriness, wrapping my fingers around the window barricade for balance,

Then with the last strength I could summon, I inhaled deeply and lifted