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 ambulance doors, just as they
breathe, panic strangling me. "No.
"Sir-"
don't hear the
open - and then I realize she is not here. Damn
is at the hospital I
snarl again, the words
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
A miracle.
cuts deeper than
to open her eyes, glare at me like I'm the most infuriating man she's ever met, and remind me how much
Not this. Never this.
studies me carefully, and I see it - the flicker of recognition in his eyes. Of course, he knows
Everyone does.
asks, his question annoying me even though
is respectful.
I don't answer.
I don't blink.
him—cold, hard, daring him to
He doesn't.
he speaks again. "Sir... we can take you with us.
moment, I actually
the wet pavement, and
the road, a brutal
she might already be
No.
I can't.
I say
he expected that, and I'm already moving - sliding behind the wheel, the engine roaring to
away, sirens wailing, as I step on the accelerator, speeding through
this happened? Wasn't he supposed to be with
I felt like it. I knew Something was off and I ignored the nagging feeling and now I'm full of
sound from another car snaps me back
night. A ride that should take forty five minutes
grip on the wheel
don't know what I'll find
don't know if Athena's
know one thing if
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