CHAPTER 85: THE CRASH

"Luca." I whimpered in pain, he glanced at me trying to hold my hand when I fell to the ground and he got to my hand instantly.

The sound of the car moving filled my mind, it was going faster and things fell against the ground.

Luca reached out for me, he didn’t yell, and I can tell he is trying to calm down. He pulled me closer to him when he held us and helped me reach for the door.

"What are you doing Luca? I don’t think that’s a good idea." I breathed out as he opened the door to the van, and I could see the road, I could barely stare at it because of how fast the car was going, I am scared we will not make it, I am scared we will end up dying like this, with just imagination of what our perfect life could have been and the thought scared me, I didn’t want this

My heart is beating faster than the speed of the car and my breath hitches, a wave of goosebumps washes over me when we roll a. And I hit my head against the wall.

"Hold on to me Olivia, this may not be what I wanted but we need to jump, if we don’t, we could die, that person driving, he may not care about his life, I am certain he doesn’t," Luca yelled and I shook my head.

Whoever is driving, he is driving us to our death and he didn’t even care, he wanted us gone; he wanted to hurt us even more than we already are and Luca is bleeding.

"Hey look at me," Luca said when I looked away from his bloody hand, my eyes were on his as he stared at me.

He is doing all he can to hold the door.

"We are driving toward a cliff, I know this road better than anyone and if we don’t jump, we are going to die, we don’t want that, we would be fine, you wrap your hand around me and I would jump, I would land while you land on me."

"You are going to get hurt Luca, you are already bleeding a lot." I breathed out. "I don’t want you to get more badly hurt."

"I won’t, just close your eyes and think about our lives without the pack, without blood or any of the other wolves, just us and our happiness, think about our home," Luca said and I looked away, when he forced me to look at him.

I closed my eyes and thought about it.

"Think about our little garden, how we would grow vegetables naw we would always pick them out to make dinner for each other, how we would have date night to keep the heat between us even though it would always be there with or without date night." He said and I smiled, my eyes filled with more tears when I felt him wrap his hand around me and he pulled me closer to him, his body warm and gentle.

"Think about how sometimes we would go to work, we would start something of our own, I can see how great it would go, it can be something that can pass down instead of this place, instead of this tension," Luca said

The more he spoke, the more I thought about all of it, our life seemed perfect, when a scream fell out of my lips, it felt like I was on air, I didn’t dare to open my eyes, my hair filled with air, and dirt and my breath getting heavy when we landed on a hard floor.

My eyes didn’t open either, I kept them closed because of the pain I felt.

"Think...think about how we don’t have to worry about getting killed every night and we can take a little vacation, how we can have a beach house like others have, or even a vacation house instead of thanks or a safe house."

"Luca." I breathed out, my eyes filled with more tears, I could feel blood oozing out of my body when I looked at him, he is as united as I am, I guess I hit my head badly, it didn’t go well with the landing.

Luca pulled me even closer as he took off his shirt and pressed it against my head.

"I am firm, you are fine, nothing is going to happen to us."’He said when I heard a loud crash, I looked to the other side to see smoke filling the air.

"He was going to get us killed," I whispered, I guess it was too late for him to stop the car and he had to continue what he started and maybe he didn’t even know that we jumped out.

"We could have died Luca, that could have been us." I breathed out, my heart skipped a beat at the thought of that, every thought scared me to the core and I didn’t even know what to think.

I was terrified and my mind could only be filled with horror, and the image of us dying.

"Het stay awake, Ares and the other would soon be here," Luca said and I shook my head

I am trying hard to stay awake, with the way I felt and the way I saw the smoke, it’s still even more and I can tell the car is on fire, it only made me feel even more scared.

"We are fine". Luca said.

"What if, what if we were trapped and the car didn’t open, what if we were trying so hard to get out just one was unconscious." I breathed out.

No matter what he said, it didn’t make me feel better, the wave of anxiety and adrenaline washed over me, my mind crowded with complete fear and tears when I stared at him again.

"It doesn’t matter because we were never meant to die there, we are fine now and nothing like that is ever going to happen, say it with me," Luca said, he forced me to look at myself

"We are fine and we are always going to be fine." I breathed out. "I don’t feel so good Luca". I breathed out.

I could feel my heart beating even faster and the pain throbbing more through my mind, it’s like I didn’t have any control and I am starting to slip into darkness, I had felt like the pain on became worse with time.

"Look at me, Ares would soon be there, they will track the van down and they will find us, and they will find out, I am sure it won’t be so long, I need you to stay awake for me." He whispered and I stared at him.

His eyes were softly on mine, the cloth he was using against my head was now filled with blood, which only made me realise how horrible the situation was at the moment, and how I could be dead.

"Tell me when you think about our kids what do you see?"

"Luca- just keep talking till they get there, you cannot fall asleep." He said cutting me off, I know he didn’t want to yell but he can’t keep it, I would be worried if it were him too.

"I think we would have all boys and not a girl, I know you would want to have girls."

"I want to have a lot of daughters, I want to take care of all of them and they are certainly not allowed to date." He said and a bitter chuckle escaped my lips.

"Are you sure about that?" I asked when I choked back on a sob, and Luca helped me sit up even better. "You are getting worried Luca, and I promise you will be fine, you are not about to get rid of me so soon. It’s not going to happen, you are stuck with me for a very long time and I am with you too." I smiled.

I had to be strong for him, I can’t let him break, right make sure we don’t have our phones, we can’t even do anything even if he tried, the city is far away and we are quite far too, even if he walked, I doubt he will, because he is injured too and I would not let that happen.

"Maybe we can have a girl for you, she would be better pampered and you would love her but she will have a boyfriend, and worse if she is attracted to men like her father, a bad boy with a lot of danger that comes with him."

"She would never go out with him," Luca said and I chuckled.

She is not even here and yet he is being so overly protective and I had thought it was cute.

His eyes were on mine, still holding on to me when I felt the pain again, this time my eyes closed to absorb the pain, I could hear his voice, yelling and calling out to me when darkness consumed me.