Chapter 32~ Dead or alive
ALEX
The world stops.
The music fades. The flashing lights blur into nothing. Mira's words echo in my
skull like a gunshot.
She drowned, Alex.
No.
No, she didn't.
How could she?
Did she throw herself in the pool when I left?
Was it because she was so drunk that she fell? Or did she do it to spite me?
Honestly, my mind is spinning so much that I can't think straight.
To make it worse, a memory from earlier hits me like a wave,
The stretcher from earlier,
The flash of a white sheet stained with water, clinging to a limp figure.
I move without thinking, shoving past bodies, my pulse hammering so hard it's all I can hear.
Athena.
I don't even remember reaching the paramedics, but suddenly I'm there -
grabbing the arm of a man in uniform, my voice a raw snarl.
"Is she alive?"
"Sir, please stand back-"
"IS SHE ALIVE?"
other paramedic's eyes shift toward the ambulance doors, just
strangling me. "No. Open
"Sir-"
don't hear
already on the door handle, yanking it open -
the hospital
again, the
a steady gaze, finally answers. "We don't know," he says, his voice firm but not
A miracle.
deeper
jaw locks, every muscle in my body going rigid. Athena doesn't need a miracle she needs to be fine. She needs to open her eyes, glare at me like I'm the most infuriating man she's ever
Not this. Never this.
studies me carefully, and I see it - the flicker of recognition in his eyes. Of course,
Everyone does.
Sir?" he asks, his question annoying me even
is respectful.
I don't answer.
I don't blink.
at him—cold, hard, daring him to ask
He doesn't.
step back toward my car, he speaks again.
moment, I
off the wet pavement, and
the road, a
she might already
No.
I can't.
drive," I say through clenched
moving - sliding behind the wheel,
peels away, sirens wailing, as I step on the
this happened? Wasn't he supposed
I felt like it. I knew Something was off and I ignored the nagging feeling and now I'm
me back to concentration but I don't slow
night.
on the wheel
what I'll find when I
don't know if Athena's still
one
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