Chapter 260. Viral

The weight of the words hung in the air, suffocating me. Did she really die? Muriel, the woman who had given me some laughter when I had thought it was impossible to laugh? How? This was not real, it couldn’t be, could it? 

She had not even made it to see me get out of this nightmare. The thought of her…of everything she had gone through, all the time she had spent in this terrible place; the fact that she was now gone—it hit me like a physical blow. 

It was not fair. Now, it was two people who had died. How was this real life? 

I sank to the floor, my legs giving way beneath me, as the sobs racked my body. Why? Why her? She had been the only one in here who…I just could not believe it. 

Then it hit me, this was what she wanted, wasn’t it? She was tired. She was tired of being in this place, and she had said it herself; if she knew she was going to be executed the next morning, she would have been dancing through the night. 

She got wh