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All I could do was sit here, waiting for someone to save us. Walking back out there seemed too dangerous. I didn’t know where Adriana was, where she was hiding, waiting to attack. There could’ve been even more than these four men out there, ready to kill.

I would’ve somehow had to carry Flora out while being attentive to every little thing around me.

I couldn’t even make it more than ten minutes out in the halls before getting caught, I wasn’t going to get far this time either.

Time didn’t seem to pass, it stretched and stretched.

I could hear muffled whispers in the hall, probably medical staff or patients who were trying to find a way out without dying.

Was the medical staff even allowed to leave or were they forced to stay despite everything and help those who needed them? God, were they carrying on in the OR or did they abandon the patients on the tables?

People were dying because of me, and I didn’t even know what I’d done to get in this situation.

But all that didn’t matter when the door opened, and a second later, the cold of some sort of metal touched the back of my head yet again.

67

A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT GATHERING

Milo Marucci

As much as Kai and I wanted to handle this without the police getting involved, we had no other choice.

Patients and hospital staff had been calling the police department in record time. There were multiple police cars outside the building, and all of the cops were cramped up in one spot as they discussed further actions.

Even the News was already on site when we arrived at the location, reporting live as if they could look inside the building when it was obvious that they had no idea what was truly going on.

For all the people inside the building and outside knew, this was a random attack. None of them knew who was responsible for it, why they were attacking a hospital, or why this was happening in the middle of the night. And the News couldn’t possibly give out information they didn’t have. They were useless.

Civilians crowded the street, gawking and praying this would be over soon. Despite their anxious chatter, it was so quiet.

As Kai and I approached the building, he handed me an extra gun. “I want my fucking million dollars back for this shit,” he said, and though I wanted to laugh, I couldn’t.

Ever since the phone connection to Sterlie suddenly broke up, there wasn’t a single ounce of joy left inside of me.

I didn’t know what happened, but it sounded like something bad.

“Woah, you can’t go in there!” One of the many police officers stepped in front of us as we neared the entrance doors.

I cocked my head, loaded my gun, and walked past the guy like he’d never stepped in my way.

“You’re going to get yourself killed!”

Kai and I both stopped in our tracks, turning around like our bodies suddenly synced up or something. It was very strange.

“At least someone is doing something, right?” Kai snapped at the officer. “You wouldn’t even think about going in there for another hour.”

Camera flashes went crazy, almost blinding us as the news reporters attempted to get the best possible picture of Kai and my “insanity.” Little did they know that without us, this nightmare would never end.

“I can’t let you go in there. You could cause more problems than?—”

“And you’re causing more deaths by waiting. People are dying and we can stop it earlier than you can,” I interrupted.

The cop muttered something under his breath but I didn’t listen as my attention lay on the nine black cars and one white one pulling up in front of the hospital. Within seconds, all ten of my cousins and brothers rushed out of their cars, not bothering to close the doors or lock the cars in any way.

On cue, they all got their guns ready, making their way over to Kai and me.

The camera flashes increased once more, and if I thought the ones before were blinding, this was topping it.

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