Chapter 331
KESTER.
I didn’t wait. I dived into my car and drove off, leaving Norlan behind. I knew he’d catch up. Couldn’t spare those few seconds waiting for him to meet me in my car. Besides, he came with his own car.
The tires screeched against the asphalt as I tore out of the driveway, the wheel jerking beneath my palms. Horns blared. Lights flashed. People cursed.
I didn’t give a fuck.
I wasn’t thinking about traffic rules or red lights or who the hell was in my way. I drove like a madman on a mission.
My mate could be bleeding out in some–sterile, white hallway or lying cold in a goddamn morgue. And I didn’t even know.
I tried calling Kasmine’s phone, but it wasn’t connecting.
Fuck.
I called Cole. The bastard always picked up, except today.
“Pick up the damn phone, Cole!” I yelled, slamming my fist once against the steering wheel.
No answer.
I gritted my teeth so hard my jaw ached.
I knew it. I fucking felt it. It had been tugging at my consciousness for days now… that feeling in my gut like the earth had tilted a little to the side..
It was all too real… It all felt like the calm before the storm when I saw everything finally falling in pleasant places.
I knew it was all too easy. I fucking knew it.
I looked in the rear mirror and saw Norlan’s car speeding behind me
We were just minutes away.
Cole hadn’t told me the name of the hospital… Or, maybe he did, but I was too carried away to even hear him.
But I knew where she was. Thanks to her necklace, I could find her blindfolded. She was still somewhere around the pack. Normally, we had to drive for three hours to get there. But with this speed, we were already almost there in two
I gripped the wheel tighter, my heart pounding like it wanted out of my fucking chest.
“Please be safe for me, baby. Be safe.” I kept chanting. That was all that mattered. Her safety. The culprit would pay after that.
But what if I got there and it was already too late?
What if the last time I held her was the last time I would ever hold her?
That thought alone felt like a knife being twisted into my spine.
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Chapter 331
A loud CRASH yanked my attention back to my surroundings.
I heard metal shredding metal, tires shrieking, and glass exploding to the air.
I slammed my foot on the brakes. The tires screeched so hard that the whole car spun slightly before jerking to a violent stop in the middle of the road.
I stared into the rearview mirror, wide–eyed.
“Fuck –!”
Norlan’s car wasn’t behind me anymore.
It was sideways, smashed into the divider rail that bordered the steep slope leading into the old construction site. That stretch of road was narrow as hell and barely lit – sharp curve, poor visibility, steep fall.
Perfect for a fucking ightmare.
He’d tried to swerve and missed.
The front of his car was crumpled like paper. The roof had caved slightly. One of the front wheels was completely off Steam hissed from the hood. One of the back doors was hanging open, and there was no movement. No fucking movement.
My chest tightened.
It was 5 PM, but the sun was already dragging its golden corpse down the sky. The road was lonely without a single car in sight.
The world had stopped breathing. So had I.
I froze with my hands still on the wheel, my heart tearing itself in half.
“Shit… shit… SHIT!”
This wasn’t happening. This wasn’t real.
It couldn’t be.
Norlan was just behind me. He was just fucking there.
My body jolted forward like it wanted to leap out before my brain could catch up.
Then I froze. Because my brain couldn’t process what my eyes were screaming at me. I stared at the scene so hard, almost as if I could will it to be a lie.
