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

me. "No. Open

"Sir-"

don't hear

hand's already on the door handle, yanking it open - and then I realize she

is at the hospital I left hours

alive?" I snarl again, the

of the paramedics, an older man with a steady gaze, finally answers. "We don't know," he says, his voice firm but not unkind. "She was under for a long time. It'll take

A miracle.

cuts deeper

muscle in my body going rigid. Athena doesn't need a miracle she needs to be fine. She needs to open

Not this. Never this.

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.

hard, daring him to

He doesn't.

as I take a step back toward my car, he speaks again. "Sir...

a moment, I actually

off the wet pavement, and imagine sitting in the

road, a brutal

she might already be

No.

I can't.

drive," I say through

already moving

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

was Noah when this happened? Wasn't he supposed to

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

loud horn sound from another car snaps me back to concentration

I drive through the night. A

the wheel tightens with every

don't know what I'll find

know if

know one thing if

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