Lilith pov

Thump. Thump. Thump.

I went into a daze almost immediately, my eyes vacant as I stared at Ella, the same woman who had been breathing a second ago, who had been talking, who had been lying.

Now, she was slumped face-first on the floor, her body limp as blood slowly pooled around her head, staining the maple floor red.

Screams echoed around me, but they were nothing more than muffled noise beneath the sharp ringing in my ears.

This man… this man had killed someone ...