Chapter 24 I WANTED TO SAY SOMETHING

— Darren —

I’ve never truly seen death before.

It took us a little while to retrieve the whole body. I was glad when Kaden put him face down. I wasn’t sure I could handle seeing his face right now. After that, we used the coat as support to carry out the broken body. We had to move excruciatingly slow. It took us a while.

“Hey, I’m coming to get you,” said a firefighter who spotted us.

“We’re okay,” said Kaden. “We have a body.”

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