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?"

other paramedic's eyes shift toward the ambulance

strangling me. "No. Open the

"Sir-"

don't hear the

it open - and then I

at the hospital I left hours

I snarl again, the words

a steady gaze, finally answers. "We don't know," he says, his

A miracle.

cuts deeper

to open her

Not this. Never this.

carefully, and I see it - the flicker of recognition

Everyone does.

asks, his question annoying me even

is respectful.

I don't answer.

I don't blink.

at him—cold, hard, daring

He doesn't.

back toward my car, he speaks again. "Sir... we can take you with us. It's faster with the

I actually

ambulance lights reflect off the wet pavement,

road, a

she might already be

No.

I can't.

say through

expected that, and I'm already moving - sliding behind the wheel, the

peels away, sirens wailing, as I step

this happened? Wasn't he

it. I knew Something was

loud horn sound from another car snaps me back

city blurs past me as I drive through the night. A ride

wheel

what I'll find when I get

if

I know one

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