The Bad Boy And The Mermaid novel Chapter 41

Blue

The car crashed into a tree. I could feel my blood rushing to my head and a painful pounding was growing there. I pressed my hand on my head and looked around. A car balloon had deflated the one that was called an air-bag. Hunter had told me that it deflated during an accident and prevented a severe injury.

The side of my face that had a gash was filing in, I was healing and it was painful. When the healing was for a deeper wound, it usually hurt a lot and it didn’t help that my head was spinning. I could only guess what Hunter was going through. I bit my lip from screaming from the pain.

I turned in my seat to face the passenger side to see how Hunter was doing. “Hunter, are you alright?”

There was no response, and he was looking the other way.

“Hunter...” I touched his cheek and turned his head to face me.

What I saw there might have driven my heart out of my chest. His silver eyes had lost the beautiful spark in them as they stared at me lifelessly.

“Say something...” I mumbled.

I didn’t even want to think about what had happened because thinking about it made it seem like it actually happened. Maybe this was a dream, I was going to wake up soon.

I pushed the damaged metal door out of the way and climbed out before walking to the other side. The passenger side door had been dented even worse. Still, I managed to pull it open.

“Hunter...look at me. I’m going to call an ambulance.”

He just stared at me and I let out loud scream. “You can’t...no you can’t be...dead. Look at me, Hunter....I’m right here...”

I punched in a number and called 911 and told them it was an emergency.

Maybe Hunter was just paused like in a game, maybe humans did that when they were in shock. I put my arm around him and started dragging him out of the car. He was very heavy but I didn’t have a choice. I panted and pulled him with every ounce of my strength.

I lay him down on the ground and sprinkled water on his face. “Wake up...wake up, please.”

When everything was vain, I buried my face on his chest and a loud sob tore through my body. Even if the ambulance arrived here in ten minutes like they said they would, I knew in my heart that he wouldn’t just wake up.

It was impossible.

I couldn’t feel him. I couldn’t feel his soul inside him.

“It’s my entire fault.” I cried. “I’m so sorry.”

My life was over. With Hunter gone, I didn’t think I could even live anymore. Not as a mermaid and certainly not as a human.

I brought my face close to him and tried to give him CPR when I knew it wasn’t going to work.

I touched his stomach and saw the dark spot of blood there. A metal had struck one of his arteries and he’d bleed to death while I was still unconscious. I cried harder.

If there was a way that I could heal him back to normal, but healing only worked if the person was alive.

Hunter was already dead.

And a part of me may have died with him.

I couldn’t lose him. There was no way that I was going to sit back and let this happen.

I joined my hands and prayed, I was sending signals to my brother and to Adrian. The ambulance wouldn’t be here until a while and there was a chance that Apollo and Adrian could do something for him collectively.

It was probably a few minutes later that through my hazy vision, I saw two figures walking towards me from a distance and I knew instantly that it was my brother and Adrian.

I ran into Apollo’s arms and sobbed. “Hunter...Hunter is...”

He disentangled himself from my embrace and went to check him. The way Apollo’s head hung in pain, I knew that the worst had happened. He placed his hands on his eyes and closed them.

“He is dead, sister.”

I covered my face with my hands and cried. “I love him, I don’t think I can live without him.”