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 they slam

me. "No. Open the

"Sir-"

hear the

door handle, yanking it open - and then I realize she is not here. Damn

the hospital I left hours

again, the words barely

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 it

in my body going rigid. Athena doesn't need a miracle she needs to be fine. She needs to open her eyes, glare at

Not this. Never this.

the flicker of

Everyone does.

her, Sir?" he asks, his question annoying

is respectful.

I don't answer.

I don't blink.

him—cold, hard, daring

He doesn't.

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

moment, I actually consider

lights reflect off the wet pavement, and imagine sitting in

the road,

might already

No.

I can't.

drive," I say

moving - sliding behind the wheel, the engine

sirens wailing, as I step on the accelerator, speeding through

was Noah when this happened? Wasn't

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

from another car snaps me back to concentration but

night. A ride that should take forty five minutes takes me

the wheel tightens

I'll find when I

know if

one thing if she

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