Never Too Late by V Wynters

Author:V Wynters [Wynters, V]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-08-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter thirty-one

Jae

“I feel like the stars are on my side knowing you chose me.”

I drive to the cliffs at record speed, foot flooring the pedal. Luckily, with it being ten at night there is no traffic on the road to stop me from getting there as quickly as I need to. After taking a final sharp right, the empty car park comes into view.

Good. Because parking carefully is my last priority right now.

Driving straight to the front gate, I kill the engine, ensuring the wheels are touching the path in front. My hand aches from clutching the door handle. I can’t throw myself out fast enough, and I’m surprised I don’t fall to the ground.

Please be here, please be here, please be here.

I ignore the pain in my side as my legs instantly take off into a sprint. That doesn’t matter right now. It’s not important. But finding Dax is.

“Remember your training, soldier. Focus on nothing else but finding your next target.”

I know Dax should be here. There’s nowhere else he would run off to. I know he’s safe. But the need to find him, to protect him, overrides any other feeling I have right now.

The pathway towards the back gate at the bottom of the cemetery is only a short walk, but at this moment it feels like the longest distance I’ve ever run. I can feel the numbness of my body, muscles feeling as though I’m running a marathon. My legs no longer feel like my own, acting automatically, without my mind telling them to.

Please be here, please be here, please be here.

My feet instantly start to slow down as I step through the gate, and the air around me rushes into my lungs, finally allowing me to breathe again when I see Dax sitting on the ground in front of the bench with his head in his hands, screaming words laced with emotions into the wind. I wonder if I should wait here, wait until he’s calmed or he’s stopped speaking, but my heart tells me no.

I need to get to him.

I slowly move towards him. Taking each step one at a time.

“I want to be happy with him. I just want to be good enough for him.” His voice breaks.

I need to comfort him. I need to protect him. I need to make sure he’s okay.

Slowly moving behind him, I drop to my knees, trying my hardest to make sure he can’t hear me. He’s too lost in his own sadness to pay attention to anything else around him. He’s exhausted, I can tell by the tone of his voice. I can see it in the slump of his body. When I hear the sound of his cries getting louder, the need to protect consumes me. I can no longer just sit and listen. Hesitantly, I wrap my arms around his body, pulling him close to my own. I feel him struggle at first, the shock of not knowing. But as soon as he senses it’s me, his body relaxes.

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