Chapter 29 Keeping Secrets

I knew there was going to be trouble the minute Vega stepped through that door. What I also knew for certain was that I would be shooting him today. Now, if I say that I wanted to only wound him, then that would be a blatant lie. I have been wanting to plant one in that miserable face of his for a while now. What I did not expect, though, is for one of these ladies to get shot. Giselle is lying on the floor, and my princess is hysterically crying while she is kneeling next to her body. I cannot see how badly Giselle is hurt and sadly enough to say that if she is even still alive. Very understandable, but also somewhat frustrating, my princess does not give me a second to look at her mom. She is squeezing her so hard that even I have stopped breathing. Much too both our shock, a familiar voice comes mumbling from underneath Cassandra's chest. "Cassie, I cannot breathe; give me some room here." "Mom! You are alive! I thought that you are dead?"