Total pages in book: 83
Estimated words: 79833 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 399(@200wpm)___ 319(@250wpm)___ 266(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 79833 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 399(@200wpm)___ 319(@250wpm)___ 266(@300wpm)
“Stop,” I beg. “Please, stop.”
He wipes strands of hair from my forehead with a tender caress. “You’re going to get old and have a full and happy life.”
I place a palm on his cheek, willing him to be quiet.
“Remember what I told you about the money and the key in the safe.”
“You will not sacrifice yourself, do you hear me?” I push with renewed vigor on his chest. “Get up. Get up, damn you!”
The shots go quiet. Maybe we’re lucky. Maybe they left.
“Take cover!” someone shouts. “Grenade!”
Too late.
The unspoken knowledge passes between us as the seconds tick, tick, tick.
One..
But our relationship has always been a bomb waiting to explode, hasn’t it?
Two…
And even as we counted down the hours to our destruction, the devastation felt so sweet.
Three…
His eyes burn both brighter and paler, the color like the clear blue sky with the dying notes and the little black birds that become dots in the distance. I hold on to those anchors, to him, refusing to blink or to close my eyes. Those eyes…they’re the color of heaven and tears. They’re the last thing I see before a blast deafens my ears and my body is sucked into a vortex of flames. The most excruciating pain rips through my lower body, darkening my vision at the same time as agonizing heat melts everything and a white-orange blaze turns our story into ashes.
TO BE CONTINUED