The Billionaire’s Fight For Redemption (Noah and Sierra) novel Chapter 404

My eyes move around the room one last time, lingering on the crib, the tiny details I had so carefully put together, and I realize that I’ll have to change it. When she comes back, this room won’t work anymore. I’ll prepare something that fits a loved little girl and I will wait however long it takes.

I wipe at my face, forcing myself to move, to step away before I fall apart all over again, and I make my way back toward the living room, still brushing away the last of my tears when something shatters.

The sound is sudden, cutting through the silence before I can even process it, and a second later something shoots past me and slams into the wall behind. My body freezes as another one follows, this time hitting my shoulder, making me stumble back from the force.

I gasp, my eyes dropping in shock as blood begins to trickle down my arm. My heart starts racing, my thoughts scrambling to catch up with what’s happening, and that’s when I notice it. The broken widow.

Before I can even process what the hell is happening, everything explodes and chaos follows.

I scream as I drop to the ground on instinct, my hands covering my head while more rapid shots ring out. Glass shatters around me, wood splinters, pieces of my home breaking apart as the sound of gunfire fills the space.

It takes a second—just one—for it to truly register that someone is shooting at me.

Panic crashes through me as I try to move, to crawl somewhere safer, but the floor is covered in broken glass and every movement sends sharp pain through my hands and knees. I can’t think, can’t breathe, can’t focus on anything except the overwhelming certainty that I’m going to die here.

The thought is suffocating, wrapping around me as tightly as the fear itself.

“Seriously?” I grumble, so tempted to give heaven the middle finger.

Just a moment ago I was praying for a miracle and then this? The universe really has a fucked up sense of humor.

I’m angry, not sure if I’ll survive this, but just as suddenly as it started, it stops.

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