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

breathe, panic strangling me. "No. Open the damn

"Sir-"

hear the

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

at the hospital I

I snarl again, the words barely

the paramedics, an older man with a steady gaze, finally answers. "We don't know," he says, his voice firm but not unkind. "She

A miracle.

word cuts deeper than it

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 met, and remind me how much

Not this. Never this.

- the flicker of

Everyone does.

know her, Sir?" he asks, his question

is respectful.

I don't answer.

I don't blink.

him—cold, hard, daring him to ask

He doesn't.

he speaks again. "Sir... we can take you with us. It's faster with

moment, I actually consider

off the wet pavement, and imagine sitting in the back,

road,

might already

No.

I can't.

I say through clenched

already moving

away, sirens wailing, as I step on the accelerator,

happened? Wasn't he supposed to be with

like it. I knew Something was off and I ignored the nagging feeling and now I'm full of

snaps me back to concentration but

night. A

grip on the wheel tightens with every

what I'll find when I

if Athena's still

I know one

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