189 v. Safe

She has barely finished putting on her wedding gown when she heard gunshots around the yakuza house.

She went to a corner of her room and started crying, using both hands to cover her ears. The ringing of the gunshots hurt her ears most painfully.

She cursed. She knew he will do something so outrageous. He will find her and not think about anything else. He wouldn't even consider the consequences or the price that is to be paid.

She wondered what would happen to him once he was captured. The yakuza house has been properly guarded, there is no way he can infiltrate it so easily.

Surely, it will be just a matter of time before he will be considered dead. It hurts her heart to even think of it.

She didn't know how long the noise lasted but she recalled the silence afterwards, and that feeling of dread that comes with it.

Just thinking about what had happened to the people outside her room made her feel panicked. She dared not come out.