Chapter 103 Chapter

I was so tortured by my need to find him that I barrelled forward regardless, fighting against my natural instincts to take flight in the opposite direction. It almost hurt to keep going, as if my blood was screaming at me in terror, resounding a warning so loud and so powerful that it took all my energy to keep my legs pumping. Soon I reached the small courtyard entrance and I stopped, collapsing against the broken wall. A moan escaped my trembling lips, the sound like the pitiful cry of a wounded animal rising in the air and disappearing into the starless night sky. There, lying just outside the door, that was buckled and wide open, was Sergio, face down, his short stocky body broken and twisted, entrails spilling out from underneath him. The open courtyard was blanketed in a layer of white that was now patterned with many bloodied footprints, and I watched numbly as snowflakes drifted down and melted into the thick pool of his blood, settling on the surface and sinking quickly into