Chapter 86

Leo pushed Andrea off him and he slumped down onto the floor, his eyes wide open at the night sky and his limbs as still as the air.

He didn't blink. His chest didn't rise and fall in breath. There was no beating of a heart inside his ribcage.

Leo stared at his body in disbelief before he looked up to me, his mouth slightly ajar as I just stood, gripping the gun as I felt the pumping adrenaline slowly fade away and the reality set in.

Andrea's blood was splattered on Leo's face from the gunshot but it didn't stop me from dropping the weapon and sprinting forward, throwing myself into Leo's chest as he wrapped his arms around my back.

I buried my head into his shoulder as he held me tight and began to sob.

"You did it," Leo whispered, "you saved us all."

I only hugged him tighter as we sat on the forest floor, next to the dead body of Andrea Martinez.