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

breathe, panic strangling me.

"Sir-"

hear the

on the door handle, yanking it open - and then I realize she is not here. Damn

the hospital I left

I snarl again, the words

steady gaze, finally answers. "We don't know," he says, his voice

A miracle.

cuts deeper than

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 met, and remind me how

Not this. Never this.

I see it - the flicker of recognition in his

Everyone does.

her, Sir?" he asks, his question annoying me even though the

is respectful.

I don't answer.

I don't blink.

stare at him—cold, hard, daring him

He doesn't.

back toward my car, he speaks again.

I actually consider

lights reflect off the wet pavement, and imagine sitting in

road,

might already

No.

I can't.

drive," I say through

moving - sliding behind the wheel,

peels away, sirens wailing, as I

was Noah when this happened? Wasn't he

knew Something was off

me back to

as I drive through the night. A ride that should take forty

wheel tightens with

know what I'll find when

if Athena's

one

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