The same something that warned me I’d be my owndestruction.A guy like me should never have gotten involved with a woman likeGabriella.Everything I had with her was too good forme.Everything including ourbaby.
Idid this to them.
A banging sound catches my attention and I look up to the second floor to see Gabriella knocking on the window.I drop the guy and run across the grass, getting closer to theflames.
The flames are so high, all around and before me, warning me away from thedanger.
But I won’t leaveher.
I push forward, keeping my gaze trained on my wife.Against the flames, her obsidian hair flows out behind her like acape and those champagne-colored eyes widen withterror.
In my mind’s eye, I remember the day we met, the day we got together, and those who tried to keep usapart.
I’m nearly there. Nearly to the mouth ofHell.
The window opens, and she starts calling for me to helpher.
“I’m coming,” Ishout.
“Aiden, help me. Save me!”
I ready myself to run through the fire but the second I take my next step, I’m blasted back into the cruel, foreboding darkness when everything explodes around me and the worldends.
Myworldends.
My wife.
My child.
I couldn’t save them.