Chapter 38 Painful Heartbreak

• By nightfall, the sky above Black Hollow had grown darker than usual, thick clouds pressing low as if the alien dome itself was holding its breath. The first deep rumble of thunder rolled across the distance, and then for the first time since the dome descended rain began to fall.
• It wasn’t gentle. It came in heavy sheets, rattling rooftops and hammering against Lena’s apartment windows like angry fists from the heavens. The sound filled the room, merging with the quiet tremor of her heartbeat as she sat at the edge of her bed, motionless.
• Her fingers clutched the insurance papers so tightly that the edges crumpled beneath her grip.