I shake my head and roll my eyes while Rafaela sings loudly beside me in Spanish. She’s had way too much to drink and I know she’ll be feeling it in the morning, but if there was ever a good reason to drink way too many celebratory toasts, tonight would certainly qualify.
Life is a dream. Nothing could ever be better than this.
Suddenly, there’s a deafening crack and Nico yells, “Get down!”
He tackles Raf and me to the ground as a hail of smaller bangs crack through the air.
Bullets.
I roll over and stare down the street, my eyes going wide as I take in the bright explosion of flames licking upward toward the night sky. Down the road. Where Bruno went to get the car.
“Bruno!” I scream, scrambling to my feet and making a run for it. Nico grabs me by the arm and pulls me back.
“Serena, no! Don’t go down there!” he shouts. By now, many of the other partygoers are down on the street, too, and the crowd becomes a mass of panicking, screaming people. Everyone is running, many people falling to the ground as another hail of bullets rain through the air.
I hear somebody shout, “Car bomb!”
No. No, no, no. This can’t be happening. This is just a nightmare. I try to break out of Nico’s grasp and run down the street. I have to know. I have to see which car exploded. I need to look at it with my own eyes, even though I already know.
It was Bruno’s car.
I know it in the deep, painful ache of my heart.
“Bruno!” I scream, my voice cracking as Nico and Rafaela drag me back away down the street to their own car, forcing me into the back seat. “No! Let me go to him! Let me go!”
“We have to get out of here,” Nico explains, throwing the car into gear and peeling out down the road in the direction of the explosion. “The Cleaners must have known we would all be here. Somebody leaked it. We’re not safe, Serena.”
Rafaela is crying hysterically, huddled in the front passenger seat while I turn and gaze wide-eyed out the back window of the car as we pass the explosion. The car is in flames, with hunks of metal and glass strewn all across the road. There is no sign of Bruno.
My voice freezes and disappears in my throat as I press my hands to the back window, watching as we drive away from the smoke and flames. I hold my eyes open for as long as I can, not even daring to blink in case I miss the sight of Bruno escaping the fire.
But he doesn’t.
He’s nowhere to be found. He’s gone.
As Nico’s car hurtles down the road, the flames shrink away into a mere blinking light in the distance, and I close my eyes just as the tears start to fall.
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Table of Contents
Copyright
Table of Contents
Bound for Life
1. Serena
2. Bruno
3. Serena
4. Bruno
5. Serena
6. Bruno
7. Bruno
8. Serena
9. Serena
10. Bruno
11. Serena
12. Bruno
13. Serena
14. Bruno
15. Serena
16. Serena
17. Bruno
18. Serena
19. Bruno
20. Serena
Bound in Love
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