"Fuck," Sofia heard Danny cuss behind her.
Suddenly, the weight of his body against hers was gone as he pulled away from her and she fell to the floor like a rag doll, unable to hold herself up any longer.
"How the fuck did you even dare touch her?" Vincenzo's voice boomed, sounding impossibly loud to Sofia in the otherwise quiet night.
That was when she realised she had closed her eyes. But she didn't dare open them. She was scared as hell to so much as move.
All she could do was cry, her whole body shaking as sobs wracked through her.
Vincenzo is here, he is here. It's over. It's fine, now, she kept telling herself over and over again. But she still couldn't stop her body from shaking.
She could hear a lot of commotion around her, a cacophony of voices, but her own heartbeat was so loud in her ears that that was all she could focus on. All the angry shouts scared her even more and she squeezed her eyes shut tighter.