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?"

toward the ambulance doors,

panic strangling me. "No. Open the

"Sir-"

don't hear the

open - and

is at the hospital

she alive?" I snarl again, the words

older man with a steady gaze, finally answers. "We don't know," he says, his voice firm

A miracle.

cuts deeper

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

Not this. Never this.

me carefully, and I see it - the flicker of recognition in his eyes. Of course,

Everyone does.

Sir?" he asks, his question

is respectful.

I don't answer.

I don't blink.

at him—cold, hard, daring him

He doesn't.

speaks again. "Sir... we can take

I actually consider

wet pavement, and imagine sitting in the

the road, a

might already

No.

I can't.

drive," I say through

nods like he expected that, and I'm already moving - sliding behind

as I step on the accelerator, speeding

this happened? Wasn't he

gone back when I felt like it. I knew Something was off and I ignored the nagging feeling and now I'm

car snaps me back to concentration but I don't

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

on the wheel tightens with every

I'll

don't know if Athena's

I know one thing if she

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