Chapter 129: I’m not into him

Inside the moving car, silence clung like a second skin. Daniel sat rigid in the backseat, staring out the tinted window as the city lights blurred past. His mind refused to let go of the image — Anna sinking beneath the water, her body going limp before he reached her.

He hated how it made him feel. The sheer panic. The helplessness. And worse, the realization of just how much her existence mattered to him.