SILVER LININGS

They had found her in a tank filled with water. She was unconscious, her clothes soaked through. They set her on the floor, and he could feel his heart racing as the thought of her already being dead filled him with sudden dread.

They could’ve found a much easier way to kill her than drowning, and he started to think about how swift their deaths had been when a voice called out to him.

“Kade!” the voice echoed, and he forced himself to focus on the scene before him. While he had been frozen in place at the sight, one of the other men had run up to...