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I take a step toward him but he pushes me back in and slams the door shut locking it. I pull against the lock but he holds it shut with his hands.
“Charlotte, you will do this. We have a baby to think of. Promise me you will get as far away from here as possible.”
“Gabe!’ I scream.
“Charlotte, fuck, please doll… please. Promise me.”
I’m shaking and trembling and my chest is so constricted I can’t breathe. I can’t do this. I can’t leave him.
“Charlotte, please, go and take care of my child.” He says with more insistence.
His child. Our baby.
I cover my mouth to keep the tears in and I find myself nodding when another bullet fires on the door and it gives.
“I promise,” I say, nodding more vigorously and he releases his hold on the door.
“Good girl.” He smiles. “Good. Baby, if I don’t make it, make sure my kid knows I was crazy about you both. Ten years passed and there wasn’t a minute when I didn’t think about you.” He smirks his trademark cocky smile and pushes down hard on the button.
“I love you,” I tell him and the tears come harder.
“And I have always loved you. Charlotte Revello, do not fade away.”
The elevator goes up and I reach for him.
I’m screaming for him as I go up and up. Up into the roof and he’s below me looking up, staring.
Gabe is below me, the bomb a few feet away and Tobias screaming on the other side of the rusty door. Another shot shakes it and it feels like death.
Death is coming and it feels like I never told Gabe enough how much I love him. It feels like I haven’t done enough to show him how much I do.
It feels like I made so many mistakes when I was just trying to do the right thing.
It all went to hell.
Everything I did, every choice I made, all of it went to hell.
I’m crying so much I can’t see.
I don’t need to see however, to know there’s only one way this can end.
There’s only one way this can end and it’s doom and death.
Darkness.
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Gabe
I watchher go up and up and in my heart I know this is it.
I know this is it for me.
My path had turned into the fine line between life and death.
Right now it was looking more like I was verging over the edge and death would come for me.
I’d try my best to live and make it through this, because damn would I love the future I imagine with the girl of my dreams.
