In the Garden of Discontent
Page 29
The horror show hit me a second later, my head turning slowly to see the pile of bodies, one after the other, all dressed in their expensive gowns and pressed tuxedos, all dead where they lay.
“What the fuck happened?”
There must have been over a hundred, all silent, their eyes open and jaws slack.
“We need to go,” Franklin insisted, his hand reaching for mine.
I moved to grab him so he could pull me up, but something tumbled from my palm to clatter against the ground.
A gun.
My brows tugged together and I looked up at Franklin only for him to snatch my hand and tug me to my feet, his grip latching on my shoulder when I stumbled back. I turned a circle where I stood and realized the extent of death.
Not one person had made it out of the ballroom. All of them mowed down by bullets to die where they’d fallen.
I looked for one person among the piles. One white gown. One scowl on a beautiful face that had called to me all my life.
Franklin grabbed my arm and pulled me forward.
“She’s not here.”
I spun to look at him.
“Lisbeth is gone,” he explained, his tone hurried. “And we need to be gone as well before anybody finds this.”
My clothes were soaked with blood, white shirt now crimson, my pants sticking to my legs. I allowed Franklin to pull me along, careful to step over outstretched arms and crumpled bodies, over men who’d tried to shield women and servants who never stood a chance.
Frantic, I searched for another face among the many, tugged my arm from Franklin’s grip to reach for every uniformed body.
“She’s dead,” he told me while grabbing me again. “They’re all dead. We have to go.”
Franklin led me through a set of double doors and away from the abattoir.
I never had the chance to find my mother.
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