Chapter 5 - Ava RemembersThat night, Ava couldn't sleep.
Rain tapped against the bedroom windows.
She stared into the darkness.
Three years earlier, she had driven home from a charity dinner.
The road had been wet.
The windshield blurred with rain.
She remembered pressing the brake.
Nothing happened.
Again.
Nothing.
Then headlights.
Metal.
Glass.
Pain.
And darkness.
For years, she had believed she was unlucky.
Now she knew she had been targeted.
Ethan sat beside her.
"I'm sorry."
Ava looked at him.
"Don't apologize for something you didn't do."
"I should have seen her."
"You trusted your mother."
"I trusted the wrong person."
Ava reached for his hand.
"Then trust me now."
He looked at her.
"I do."
"Good."
She smiled through her tears.
"Because I'm not going to spend the rest of my life being afraid of her."
For the first time since the crash, Ava felt something stronger than fear.
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Anger.
And beneath the anger was hope.
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