After We Collided Book の小説・ストーリー

Celia was done and they were past the location when someone overtook their car. Lazar: Hey! Look where you’re going! He drove in speed to catch up with the driver. The car stopped at their office. Lazar unleashed his seat belt and ran behind the person. Celia too hurried following him. As they were about to catch the person, they got a knock on their head and fell instantly.

The corners of my lips slowly curled upward. 'June, for the rest of our lives, let's never see each other again.'

Xander said the moment we returned, staring at me as if he could see right through me. "Well, you'd better comfort me, then." I hooked my finger on his tie. "After all, we're still young, right?" Xander's ears turned red again as he hummed in agreement under my gaze. I then tackled him and kissed his face all over. … Five years later, the system told me that Elijah's world had finally collapsed. At the time, I was holding my daughter, Maya Fuller, and teaching her to paint when I heard the news. I paused for a moment to remember before the memories came back to me.

Deliberate. I dealt with Finn. I watched Mira step forward and speak to him directly, clearly, without flinching, and I stored that away. And then everything happened at once. Finn's warriors moved. I moved. The defensive line broke and reformed and I lost track of Mira for three seconds that felt like three hours, and then I saw Finn breaking through on her side and I was already running. The collision happened at the edge of the wall where the ground dropped away. I hit Finn from the side, which meant I hit him on Mira's side, which meant all three of us went over.

His stride shifted, and his body angled toward me. I didn’t flinch. Silent killers don’t panic. We observe. We wait. So, I kept running, my heart beating a little harder now, but not from the jog. I didn’t look at him directly, but I could feel him getting closer, his footsteps syncing with mine. Before I knew it, we were both heading straight toward each other. Neither of us slowed down. It was as if we were testing who would stop first. Then—bam! We collided. My shoulder bumped into his, hard enough to knock me slightly off balance. My headphones slipped off and hit the ground with a dull thud. I stopped, breathing heavily, my eyes locked on the man now standing in front of me.

But that hope died down so easily when the car behind bumped into my car again, and I tried avoiding a van in front but everything happened so fast that there was nothing I could do. My car collided with the van, my head bumped at the stirring wheel and I felt numb for a while. [“Alora Eunice! Still there? F*ck! What’s that sound? Alora Eunice, do you hear me? Answer me! Please!—”] “A-Archi…” Everything went black.

I was just turning the corner after leaving the library when my phone buzzed again, and like an idiot, I didn’t stop and step away from the road before checking it. And just because I was unlucky enough, I collided with someone. Normally, whenever this happened, it was the other person who'd bear the brunt of the collision. But this time, perhaps because the person had been running towards me, I was the one who lost my balance. Rather spectacularly. “Shit,” came a voice, moments after my ass hit the floor. My brows furrowed. It was uncharacteristically raspy, like the speaker’s throat had been reinforced with gravel and barbed wire.

Samantha and Jake had agreed to one rule: No more campus meetings or public meetings, Only at Joan’s place. But fate ignored their plans. That morning, Samantha and Naomi ran down the hall, laughing and their books in their hands. Just as they turned the corner, they collided head-on with Jake and his friend Clark. Samantha’s books flew from her hands, scattering across the floor. Everyone froze for a moment. Their eyes met. "Babe," they both said at the same time—half shock, half instinct.

I repeated, grunting as I sharpened my telepathic message, projecting my inner voice with every ounce of willpower I possessed. "Take cover, Ash!" Caspian’s sharp warning cut through my focus just as I caught sight of our car hurtling toward us. We leaped out of its path a split second before the vehicle crashed into the masonry above our heads. We hit the ground hard, rolling away as heavy bricks dislodged by the impact rained down. The collision had deformed the house, providing a jagged entry point where the walls had collapsed near the roof. But there was no time to exploit it; the creature was charging.

We sealed it with another kiss. And nothing was ever the same again. THE END OF BOOK TWO