Chapter 248

　　My eyes closed for the briefest moment.

　　There was no time to think.

　　Only to act.

　　With trembling hands, I crawled toward the pistol as quietly as I could.

　　I picked it up.

　　It was heavier than I had imagined.

　　Heavier than the cane I used to kill my father.

　　But I had seen Zayne's life in...