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?"

the ambulance doors, just as they slam

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

"Sir-"

don't hear the

the door handle, yanking it open - and then

at the hospital

snarl again,

"We don't know," he says, his voice firm but not unkind. "She was under for

A miracle.

cuts deeper than it

she needs to be fine. She needs to open her eyes, glare at me like

Not this. Never this.

it - the flicker of

Everyone does.

you know her, Sir?" he asks, his question annoying me even

is respectful.

I don't answer.

I don't blink.

stare at him—cold, hard,

He doesn't.

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

moment, I actually

wet pavement,

road, a

might already

No.

I can't.

say

expected that, and I'm already moving - sliding

peels away, sirens wailing, as I step

when this happened? Wasn't he supposed to

have gone back when I felt like it. I knew Something

loud horn sound from another car snaps me back to

the night. A ride that should take forty

wheel

don't know what I'll find when I

know if Athena's

I know one thing if

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