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?"

paramedic's eyes shift toward the ambulance doors, just as they slam

strangling me. "No. Open the

"Sir-"

hear the

yanking it open - and then I realize

is at the hospital I left hours

again, the words barely human

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

A miracle.

cuts deeper than it

She needs to open her eyes, glare at

Not this. Never this.

me carefully, and I see it - the flicker of recognition in his

Everyone does.

asks, his question annoying me even though the

is respectful.

I don't answer.

I don't blink.

him—cold, hard, daring him to

He doesn't.

he speaks again. "Sir... we can

a moment, I

the wet pavement, and imagine sitting in the back,

road,

she might already be

No.

I can't.

I say through

that, and I'm already moving - sliding behind the wheel, the engine roaring

sirens wailing, as I

happened? Wasn't he supposed

I knew Something was off and I ignored the nagging feeling and now I'm

me

past me as I drive through the night.

wheel tightens

I'll

don't know if Athena's

one thing

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