C40 Chapter Forty

Goodbye

THE NIGHT OF THE CRUISE

I STOOD, SHAKING, bits of Professor Cavin smeared into my hair and on my face, and I dropped the gun and sobbed. I'd just killed the man I thought of as my protector. My mentor. I covered myself with my shirt and adjusted my pants, disgusted and terrified by what he'd been about to do.

Angry at what he'd done to my mother and father.

Shaking