Chapter 5

Blood dripped from the corner of her forehead, and suddenly, she laughed. At least tonight, she would suffer a little less. In the darkness, Sadie's consciousness began to blur. The searing pain in her body seemed to dissolve into the warm flow of water. Familiar sounds of cicadas buzzed in her ears. She saw herself at ten years old, sitting barefoot on the branch of a mango tree, her legs swinging gently in the air. Below the tree, a boy in white held a freshly picked mango in his hands,...