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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