Chapter 62
CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO
ELENA
I made it halfway into the woods when I heard. “You can’t run from me, bitch!”
Terror escalated as I forced my legs to move faster. I tripped on a branch, fell to the ground. Something sharp poked my leg, but I didn’t have time to look. I pushed myself up and ran out of the woods into a parking lot full of delivery trucks. No one was around.
I ran toward the building, but it was closed. So I moved onto the next building. One of them had to be open. My leg hurt so much. I glanced down and blood had stained my pants. My fanny pack had ripped too. Dandelions had poured out of it.
“Where are you, Elena?” A gunshot rang out.
My heart gave a nervous jolt. I ran toward a building with several cars parked in the lot, rushing into the lobby. A security guard rose from the desk.“Are you all right, miss?
“There’s a crazy guy with a gun!”
“Come inside!” He buzzed me in and pointed to the back. As I ran down the hallway, I heard him call the police.
Then I heard gunshots.
Two men and a woman exited from a room.
“Go hide!” I shouted at them. “There’s a gunman out there!”
I ran to a storage room and limped toward the back by the window. If he came in, maybe I could break the window. I crouched behind the stacked boxes with my heart beating erratically and pain shooting up my leg.
What if I died today?I didn’t want to die like this. My mom needed me. I had so many things I wanted to do.I had things to say to Orion so I could officially close out this chapter in my life.
Sirens shrieked in the distance, and I prayed the police arrested Jasper. Something caught my eye from the window. I looked out and a dragonfly drone hovered by the windowpane, looking at me.