The Waking Dark by Robin Wasserman

Author:Robin Wasserman
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-375-86877-1
Publisher: Random House Children's
Published: 2013-09-09T16:00:00+00:00

10

THE BAD AND THE UGLY

The bullet ricocheted off the toilet, setting off a spray of porcelain shrapnel. It embedded itself in the wall two feet to the left of where Cass had dropped to the floor and curled her head into her arms. She stayed that way, eyes squeezed shut, waiting. She could hear Grace’s breathing, loud and slow. Her own breaths came quick and panicked, like her body was determined to get in as many as it could while it had the chance.

Blood pounded in her ears; her stomach hurt; she was angry, though she had no right to be.

She was terrified.

She heard a clicking sound, like some lever or mechanism on the gun had been shifted into place.

Though the shot must have echoed throughout the station, no one came.

“I’m sorry.”

Cass was so muddled by fear that for a moment she thought she’d spoken the words herself. But then Grace repeated them and, with her parting words, made clear that she was sorry not for firing, but for missing. And perhaps for slipping the gun into her highlighter-yellow backpack and walking away.

“Next time,” Grace said while Cass huddled on the ground, not willing to trust that it was over. “I promise.”

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