YELENA

I kept staring at the same spot on the wall like the answers were hidden there. My chest still felt tight. My head still felt full. Ria was gone. Just like that. One minute, we were fighting for her life with everything in us, and the next minute, she was lying there cold. I still couldn’t wrap my mind around it.

We saved her. We saved her!

And now she was dead.

My tears refused to fall properly because everything felt unreal, like I was trapped inside a dream that refused to end. ...