Chapter 346. Crisis Averted

Zave Ambrose

Everything happens really fast. One second he's looking at the couch, and another second he's pressing a pillow into Chantel's face. Her cries don't stop, but they're muffled.

Dad smiles as he keeps using all his strength to shut my baby sister up.

I didn't know. I didn't know he was trying to kill her. All I knew was that my sister was turning blue.

I jump out of the closet, finally screaming at them. Placing Veronica down on the soft blankets as I rush to Chantel. Pushing Dad's hand off of her, trying to make her not blue. Red. That's what's good. Red is good; blue is not.

"Let go of her! Don't touch her! Let my sister go!" I shout, adrenaline coursing through me.

They laugh at my attempts to save her. I don't know what to do. I never screamed at them like this before. But I know that if I don't do something, I will lose her.

I grasp his arm and sink m