AllFreeNovel
Share Us
I can barely see the buildings as everything rushes past in a blur.
Elliot’s headlights stay on us, but it only makes Vaughn zig and zag, taking a sharp turn down a street that has me flinging against the door.
“Fuck,” he grunts.
“Vaughn, this is crazy.” Fear saturates my voice. “You need to—”
“Shut the fuck up, Raine. I can’t think with you nagging me. I can’t fucking think.”
One of his hands thrusts in his hair, tugging the ends, as volatile energy swirls around him.
Tears cascade down my cheeks, my head pounding and heart galloping in my chest. I’ve been in some precarious situations in my life—most thanks to this man—but this feels different.
It feels… deadly.
“Shit, I can’t fucking lose them.” His eyes cut to me, pinning me to the spot as a lick of terror zips down my spine.
He looks feral.
Eyes blown and sweat beading along his forehead.
He’s one step away from losing it.
“Vaughn, the road,” I scream as headlights come toward us.
He manages to swerve, a loud horn cutting through the night.
I can hardly breathe, my heart lodged in my throat as he floors the gas again. “Vaughn, please…”
“Maybe it’s better this way,” he murmurs.
“What? What’s better?”
Police sirens whir in the distance only feeding into his mania.
I realise then, we’re not going to walk out of this alive. This is it; this is how I die.
At the hands of the man who broke me.
I squeeze my eyes shut, trying to calm down. Trying to shove down the fear I’m drowning in. But I can feel it, flooding my chest, my lungs, crawling up my throat.
I shouldn’t have run. I should have waited, bided my time, tried to escape—
“Fuck,” he roars, slamming his hand down on the steering wheel. “You really fucked things up this time. One job… one more fucking job…”
But it wouldn’t have been one job. I realised that the second I saw Vaughn at the party. He infiltrated my life. Watched from the shadows as I fell in love with Theo.
Theo…
My heart twists.
He would never let me walk away from that.
I suck in a desperate breath, my gaze fixing on the road ahead of us.
I scream but he doesn’t see the oncoming truck until it’s too late.
The impact tears through me, flinging me forward. Metal on metal screams in my ears, the overpowering of smoke and rubber filling my nose. My head hits something, pain ricocheting down my spine as I crumple.
