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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