LOGIN[Alma]"Okay, listen. You can talk to her without yelling. That's the last thing she needs right now."His voice was calm but firm, and I felt his fingers tighten around mine as though he was trying to keep the room from becoming any more overwhelming for me.Elara immediately lowered her head, sniffing as she wiped her eyes with the back of her hand. Her shoulders trembled slightly, and when she tried to speak, her voice broke halfway through."I'm sorry. I didn't mean to... I just..." She trailed off, pressing her lips together as she struggled to hold herself together."You don't drive, Alma," Sienna chimed in, her voice thick with emotion. Her eyes shimmered with tears as she looked me over, taking in the bandage around my head and the rest of me lying helplessly in the hospital bed. "You're scared of driving, so why would you get behind the wheel when you know you can't?"Zevyn's fingers tightened around mine again.I knew why. He had no idea how much I hated driving or what had
[Alma]No matter how badly I wanted to shut my eyes and get some sleep, I just couldn't. My gaze remained fixed on the man seated beside me on the hospital bed, my fingers wrapped tightly around his hand like it was the only thing keeping me grounded.I couldn't let him pull away. I couldn't even bring myself to look elsewhere for more than a few seconds, much less loosen my grip on his hand.What if I blinked and he was gone?What if everything he'd told me about being alive, about being right here beside me, was all a lie?The thought alone made my fingers tighten around his.A doctor had walked into the room twice already, asking me a few questions about how I was feeling and whether I could remember anything about the accident. Both times, I'd watched Zevyn speak calmly with him, answering whatever questions he had without any sign of distress. He'd looked so real, so perfectly alive.That should have been enough to convince me. I knew it should have been, but my heart wouldn't st
[Alma]The second I opened my eyes, a sharp light hit my eyelids, making me squeeze them shut again. I growled, my eyes tightening even more before I slowly forced them open. It took a moment for my vision to clear, and when it did, all I could see were white walls. I stared at them, confused, trying to figure out where the hell I was. My head felt heavy, and something about the silence around me felt strange. Then I heard it... a soft, steady beeping coming from somewhere beside me.I tried to turn my head toward the sound, but a sharp pain shot through my skull, making another growl escape my lips.Fuck.I tried to curse again, but my throat felt strange, almost as though something had a grip on it from the inside. I swallowed, frowning as I lay there, wondering what the hell was happening to me.It took me a few minutes to realize I was in the hospital.And then everything came back.That call.The woman's voice telling me Zevyn had been in an accident. I remembered how I'd rushed
[Zevyn]"Answer me, Zevyn! How could you do this to me?" Alma shouted.I shook my head again, my lips parting, but every word I wanted to say died in my throat. I couldn't seem to force a single one out. My gaze darted from her face to the steep drop behind her, to the jagged rocks far below that threatened to end my world if she took even one more step backward."Alma..." Her name left my lips, but she only shook her head, tears spilling down her cheeks."I trusted you."The words struck harder than any punch I'd ever taken. She clutched her stomach with both hands, her fingers pressing against the fabric of her clothes. Blood stained everything. Her clothes, her hands...And mine.My fucking hands.I stared down at them, horror twisting through my chest as the truth settled over me. I'd done this. I'd caused it. Whatever happened next would be my fault, too."Please." The word slipped from my lips as I looked back at her, shaking my head repeatedly. My hands stretched toward her, de
[Zevyn]My hand curled tightly beside me as I stared at the sight before me.Alma was lying right there, motionless beneath the white hospital sheets, a thick bandage wrapped around her head. The machines beside her beeped steadily, their sounds cutting through the room's silence. A line ran from her hand, another tube extended toward her nose, and an IV drip hung beside the bed, its contents slowly making their way through the tubing.I couldn't fucking move.I stood there, staring at her for what felt like an eternity, trying to get a grip on the way my heart was hammering against my chest. Every beat seemed louder than the last, filling my ears until it was almost impossible to focus on anything else. I swallowed hard, but the tightness in my throat remained.She looked so different lying there.I'd seen Alma angry, stubborn, hurt, and defiant. I'd watched her look at me with those eyes. But seeing her like this, with her eyes closed and her body surrounded by machines, was somethi
[Zevyn]"I'm trying to understand something," Sebastian snapped, his voice sharp enough to cut through the silence. "I'm trying to understand why someone would deliberately pull the trigger on another person and then rush to hold that same person in his hands like he had no fucking idea what happened."My fingers curled around the phone in my hand."You put her in that hospital, Zevyn!" he continued, his voice rising. "You put her in that position, and now you're standing here acting relieved because the surgery was successful?"I swallowed.For a moment, I wanted to tell him to shut the fuck up. I wanted to call his words trash, to remind him that I hadn't wanted any of this to happen, that I'd never intended for Alma to end up lying unconscious in a hospital bed with her forehead split open.But the words wouldn't come.I tucked my injured hand into my pocket, my fingers searching for the car key until they found it. I curled them around the small piece of metal, holding it tightly
[Alma]I bit down hard on my lips as I stared back at my reflection, before shifting my gaze to the closed door. I gulped, repeating the lies I was going to tell Grandma, if this had to do with where I was or why I had a different outfit on.I took another deep breath, smoothing my hand over my dr
[Zevyn]I don’t lose control. But something about this green-eyed woman...The way she looked at me— like she already knew exactly what I was capable of—I let her stand there.Let her think. Let her try to piece it together—why she was here, what I really wanted, what she’d just broken.She was s
[Zevyn]My jaw clenched so hard I knew my teeth would crack if I didn't let go."Urghh." The woman on her knees moaned, her head bumping harder against my cock to impress me— or perhaps make me increase her pay, I couldn't care less.I was getting bored, but I needed her to keep going, I needed to
[Alma] "It happens on my terms." I blinked. Hard. My heartbeat thudded loudly in my chest as I stared at the man in front of me, struggling to focus on what he just said. My breath came out thinner than I wanted as I held it together, forcing my shoulders to stay relaxed even when everything in







