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Jade shakes her head. “I-I don’t know you. What do you want from me?”
She sniffles, eyeing me and Elliot.
And that’s when it hits.
“No,” I stammer. “No, no, no, Tamar, please…”
“This is for Zara,” she sobs.
And she shoots.
Right at her chest.
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JADE
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“If we don’t get her to a hospital within the next ten minutes, she’s dead.”
“Jade…”
Such a beautiful voice. It sounds like an echo lost in a mountain. It beats in my ears with a need for me.
“Jade…baby, please open your eyes.”
A deep breath swallows the last note of his plea. The scattered kind, broken down by meaningful sobs.
“If you open your eyes…I swear…I swear I will make it right.”
There’s a void inside me. Something that grabbed me a few minutes ago when that gun was aimed at me.
I cough when I try to breathe. It tastes like blood in my mouth. It tastes like death in my heart.
My chest constricts when the car hits a bump.
“Small breaths…” That’s a new voice. “Hold on for us, Mi Cielo. Please, hold on. Kay, take the next right.”
“My love…” Elliot’s voice barely makes it past the ringing in my ears this time.
Those breaths are becoming really fucking hard to take. I cough and feel the burst of blood spurting out of my mouth.
That must be all over Elliot now.
The light is too bright when I try to open my eyes. Like a flash right in front of my face.
Click.Here’s your last shot as a woman alive.
I can feel a slap on my cheek, barely. Like being hit by soft cotton. My body shakes from the cold coming from within me.
“Ethan.” Elliot’s panic has gone up a notch. It’s desperate now. “She’s not…”
Isn’t it insane? That I still feel conscious, perfectly knowing my breathing has stopped and so aware that there’s nothing to do about it.
This is the end.
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