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“Raine, shit, Raine,” a voice calls but it’s like being under water. Everything distant and distorted.
Warm liquid trickles down my forehead, pain spreading into every crevice of my body. God, it hurts.
It hurts so much.
I cry out but the darkness envelops me as I hear my name.
Raine.
Raine.
RAINE.
But it’s too much. I can’t fight the heaviness taking over my body.
Voices hover on the outskirts of my consciousness.
“Oh fuck, what do we do?”
“Raine, Raine, sunshine, fuck… somebody help, somebody…”
They disappear again as heat licks my skin, pressing down on me like a suffocating blanket. The acrid smoke filling my lungs until I can’t breathe.
Until I can’t fight it a second longer.
I begin to slip… to drift… falling into the abyss.
And all I can think is, I wish I got to tell him goodbye.
29
THEO
I’m pretty sure the moment I watched the truck plough head first into Vaughn’s car will be something I never forget.
It doesn’t matter what the outcome of this is. It is going to haunt me for the rest of my days, I know it.So will the sound of my own scream as I watched it play out from the passenger seat of Elliot’s car.
The moment we realised that Vaughn had her in that car, we had hightailed it back to Elliot’s car and took off after them. If we didn’t already know it from the little we’d learned about Vaughn Ronson, then watching him drive confirmed that he was a fucking psychopath.
“Raine, baby. Stay with me. Please,” I beg as I stand over her slumped, bloody body in the front seat of his mangled car. “I need to get her out.”
“No,” Elliot barks, grabbing my arm and wrenching me back before I even get a chance to touch her. “Don’t. You might make things worse.”
“Worse?” I shout. “Make it fucking worse? You are seeing the same thing I am, right?”
Smoke bellows from the crumpled bonnet, the car barely recognisable anymore.
“I know, Theo. I know,” he says, his eyes alternating between staring at me and my broken girl.
“I need to do something. I need to help. I need to… I need to fix her.”
Pain like I’ve never felt before rips through my chest. My nose itches and my eyes burn with tears as I study her.
She’s covered in blood. There is so much that I don’t even know where it’s coming from. All I can hope is that it’s not hers, but I think that might be wishful thinking.
We all saw the force of the collision, and she’s not wearing a seat belt.
She’s been thrown around like a rag doll.
