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My blood.
“How’s she looking?”
“Not good. At all,” my handsome savior replies while holding me.
“Damn it. It’s my fault. I should have—”
“There was nothing you could have done,” the man holding me says. “It’s too late now. All we can do is try to help her.”
He pulls out a phone and places it to his ear. “There’s been an accident. It’s really bad. One person is alive.” He rattles off an address, and the numbers fade in and out just as I go in and out of consciousness. “Hey, hey, stay awake. Help is on the way. Hold on for me, okay? Hold on.” He brushes a piece of my hair out of the way which sparks a jolt across my skin. My eyes snap open, and I inhale a deep breath, my ribs burning from the attempt, and I claw at his arm.
“You’re okay. Shhh, shhh, I have you.”
“Dri! We have to go.”
“I’ll go when I hear the siren,” my savior says.
“Who…are you?” I rasp, the dizziness taking hold of me.
“No one, sweetheart. I’m no one.”
“You saved me,” I say to him, licking my lips from how dry they are. “I can’t…my eyes…” I close them when it becomes too difficult to stay awake.
“No, no, no. Come on, sweetheart. Stay with me. You hear that? Help is on the way. The sirens are getting close. I’m sorry. I have to go. I have to…I’m sorry.”
I think his lips touch my cheek, but I can’t be sure since I can’t see him and can’t feel anything other than pain.
When he leaves, I’m left cold, and my injuries finally take me under.
And in darkness, I find peace.
It’s nice here.
I think I’ll stay.
Chapter One
Mable
Present day.
I’m staring at the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. It’s much bigger than I thought it would be. After all these years, I’m surprised it’s standing. It was built to withstand the test of time, and somehow, I relate to that. I have my entire life ahead of me, but I feel like I’ve been through hell and back. I’m tired of the hardships of life.
I know that’s what everyone says. Life isn’t meant to be fair, and it sure as hell isn’t easy, but it’s okay to admit when you’re tired, right? I mean, eventually, after being beaten down so many times, I’m allowed to hope for a break?
That’s why I’m here.
I needed to get away from the real world. I hadn’t taken a day off from work in years. I’ve always been hard on myself. I push and push until I’m so exhausted that I sleep for fifteen hours straight. Nothing I ever do is good enough. I always need to be better, do more, and accomplish more work; and honestly, I’m tired of being like that. I don’t like myself, and that bothers me.
So, I’m here to reset.
I’m here to take deep breaths in and out, in the gorgeous air of the two-tone green and blue sea. I’m here to experience new sights, new wine, food, and people.
Men, I don’t know if I’m ready to sample what Greece has to offer in that department.
I’m twenty-eight years old and still a virgin and, like the other aspects of my life, I think I’m ready to change that. I’ve had opportunities, but I’ve never been so attracted toward someone that I felt like I had to get naked and roll around in the sheets with them.
I started to think something was wrong with me, being uninterested in every man who approached me. But now I’m refusing to be broken, and I’m refusing to let dark brown eyes haunt me. Not anymore. I can’t be chained to someone who doesn’t exist.
