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?"

eyes shift toward the

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

"Sir-"

don't hear

already on the door handle, yanking it open - and then I realize she is

is at the hospital

again, the words barely human

"We don't know," he says, his voice firm but not unkind. "She was under for a long time. It'll take

A miracle.

deeper than it

going rigid. Athena doesn't need a miracle she needs to be fine. She needs to open her eyes, glare at

Not this. Never this.

see it - the flicker of recognition

Everyone does.

his question annoying me even though the

is respectful.

I don't answer.

I don't blink.

hard, daring

He doesn't.

my car, he speaks again. "Sir... we can take you

a moment, I actually

reflect off the wet

road, a brutal

might already be

No.

I can't.

I say through clenched

moving - sliding behind the wheel, the engine roaring to

ambulance peels away, sirens wailing, as I step on the accelerator, speeding through

Wasn't

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

sound from another car snaps me back

night. A ride that should take forty five minutes takes me

wheel tightens with

what I'll find

don't know if

know one thing

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