Chapter 63

“What did you just do?!” Lila panicked after seeing Mr. Powell James drop to the ground, courtesy of the bullets he received from Henry’s gun.

“Did you just kill a man?” she asked again in very heightened fright. She couldn’t even bear to look.

Mr. Powell’s brain was scattered all over the place. His lifeless body kept oozing out blood from the nose and head till there was nothing left.

“You killed a man?” Lila spoke like she would have terrible nightmares about it.

“He could have hurt you, Lila,” Henry tried to justify his actions in front of her. “He had a pistol, too,” Henry said, wanting to table some logic.

“He would have done nothing.” Lila believed. “He was just going to retrieve the documents and take the money, that’s all.”

“You do not know this man,” Henry said. “He would have killed us and walked away, and no one would find out because everyone already thinks he’s dead.”

“What are we going to do,” Lila said quietly to herself. Hen