Chapter 242

• NO!
• My energy blows out like an explosion and takes everything in its wake. Uncontrolled due to my sheer fear and mounting hysteria, time suddenly ceases to cling on in the slow-mo. Wooosh, the clock restarts, and everything in my wake is thrown wide like the after implosion of a nuclear bomb.
• Sierra, Radar, the bullet, and Juan all catapulted away from me with force. Flying into a chaotic landing of limp bodies against the far wall behind the bed, taking a pillar and the canopy with it in a crashing chorus of thuds and growls. It’s a monumental fallout from something I didn’t mean to deliver so viciously.