CHAPTER 35

At first, Katherine heard one gunshot.

A long silence followed. Then, she heard two more pops—deafening and heart-shattering.

Whimpering, she collapsed onto the ground, shifting herself into the corner of the panic room. Her heart felt heavy, and her breathing became ragged as she curled up, her thoughts unstable.

After that, she didn't hear anything anymore. Not for the next five or ten minutes, until she heard the sound of shoes crunching on gravel from the small window near the ceiling behind her.

It sounded as though something was being dragged across the floor. Was it Lucifer? Was that his body being dragged?

Keeping mute, she pressed her...