34. Glad to see you alive

The worst feeling in the world is being hurt by someone you love. But what is more frustrating is when you try to hate them and realise you are incapable of even doing that. ~ A. Gupta

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COLE

It took me more than a few tries to open my eyes and look around myself to understand where I was and why the fuck it felt like my body had suffered a running truck. But just as the white walls and antiseptic smell of the hospital room registered, my mind helpfully reminded me that indeed I had suffered through a running truck.

Fûck.

I remembered vividly how I had been racing down the empty streets when out of nowhere a truck had came out and collided with the side of my car. Even when I had tried to take control of my car, it had kept going like the man was taking out some personal vendetta against me. If it had happened anywhere but Willow Creek, I’d have definitely chalked it up to someone trying to rile my uncle up in Italy, but I didn’t think it was the case. Because for one, I was definite