A blood-curdling scream could be heard.

Hailey scrambled down the stairs with her newborn baby in her arms. With tears in her eyes, she kept screaming her husband’s name.

“Maddox! Maddox!

“Please don't let it be you, Maddox! Please!”

…

Everyone around her stared at her. To them, she was just a beautiful lady who had gone out of her mind. She looked like she was on the verge of falling apart. Her slippers had slid off her feet and there was a baby in her arms who kept crying non-stop.

A male body lay down in the flower bed in the center courtyard. His limbs were hanging off the raised concrete as blood seeped out all over it. There wasn’t any life in his eyes. He was just staring at the sky, where dawn had just broken over the horizon.

It was the beginning of a new day, but he’d never live to see it.

“Maddox.”

Hailey called out from among the crowd. Making her way through them, she walked over to her husband’s dead body.

Staring at him with unblinking eyes, it took her les