After We Collided Novels & Stories

We soared across the room, colliding firmly with the wall before we moved across the ground back to the spot we were in at the beginning. The figure had his hand extended and we his eyes folded in fury. “You will pay for that.”

The car thudded against rocks or something else and careened sideways, tumbling into shrubs and dirt. The silence following our crash was deafening as we all looked warily around, trying to spot any sudden movement. “What was that?” Cassie groaned while holding her head with her hand. “Rogues,” Elijah answered that immediately made all the sleep drive off our eyes. “Tyler, Gavin. Slowly get out. Violet, stay with Cassie in the car.” “But Cassie looks hurt” I said, looking at the thin line of blood trickling down her left temple.

I grabbed him by the collar and dragged him forward, my vision red. “Don’t you dare say it! Don’t you f**ing* say she’s dead! She’s not! She’s not dead!” It took two men to pull me off him. Then silence. Only the sound of waves outside the hangar. “Today’s our anniversary,” I heard myself whisper. “She said she’d be back before sunset.” I had planned a celebration. Now it was a funeral. I couldn’t stay there any longer. I went back to the chapel where we’d been married.

I said to them before howling angrily, and immediately I dashed towards them. I was astonished by the fact that I wasn't scared of them like the previous time they dashed towards me, and just like two swords clashing together, we clashed against each other, projecting ourselves in different directions. It took me some minutes to recover from the clash, and when I managed to get up, I was surprised to see the three supreme Alphas struggling to get up, and in addition to that, they had already dismerged. "Ooh, my supreme Alphas, what went wrong? I hope none of you broke a joint," I asked them with a mockery tone as they had finally managed to get back on their feet.

"I swear, Harlow. I swear I didn't have sex with her. I have been locked in my room for a week. I didn't come out until I heard your voice. I swear, sweetheart. I swear. I would never do-" I'm cut off when I hit a patch of ice. I feel my tires lose their traction and I start to spin. I try to turn the wheel, to even myself out, but I can't find any purchase. I start to panic and slam on the brake but that only makes it worse. I spin again, but come to an abrupt stop. I hear the sickening sound of metal crunching, my head bouncing back painfully as the airbag deploys. My whole body jolts at the sudden impact, my mind going hazy and my body numb.

The tension in the room extinguished, they returned to painting in a companionable silence for a long while each lost in their own thoughts of the other. Then, Howie Day’s Collide started playing over the speakers. Dani’s arm seemed to stop painting of its own accord. This had been one of the songs they had both loved and listened to in the bed of Levi’s truck many times, looking at the stars. The memories flooded her as she listened to the haunting chorus about people making mistakes, falling down but finding the person you are meant to be with anyway. Love conquering all.

Notifications flooded the screen so fast the numbers blurred. I opened the top one. It was a video. It showed me head down, my earbuds plugged in as I walked fast across the quad. Jace and his group were around the corner. My shoulder slammed into his chest then I stumbled, his hand instantly reached out and caught my arm to steady me. Someone had slowed that part down; made it look deliberate and intimate. The caption read: “Hockey captain meets his mystery girl #CollisionCouple” Comments poured in underneath.

Killian roared. ​The collision was not a physical impact; it was a Data-Crash. When Killian’s shadow met the Inquisitor’s light, the reality around them buckled. The ground beneath the sled turned into a liquid-grey grid, and the sky flickered from bruised purple to a sterile, blinding white.

I groaned as I skated towards him and for the first time in too long, managed to steal the puck from him, immediately skating toward the other end of the rink. I pushed forward, hearing him close in behind me. Desperate, I tried to change directions but he immediately did the same and before I could come up with a defense quick enough, our skates collided. Everything happened too quickly after that. My balance disappeared beneath me, and before I could recover, Takumi crashed into me, sending the two of us hard against the ice. “Fuck!” I landed on my back, the impact knocking the air out of me. He landed directly over me, the weight of his body against mine almost crushing.

But before either of us could speak again, headlights appeared behind us—fast, bright, too close. Adrian’s expression hardened. “They found us.”