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Continue from Episode 2
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Just as Seth feared, Lauren had pushed her luck too many times, zooming around a precarious curve much faster than her distracted driving could handle. Because he’d already imagined it happening, when she did lose control, Lauren’s car smashing through the guard-rail, flipping, and tumbling down several yards of a rocky hillside before it was stopped by the sickening crunch of twisted metal striking a thicket of trees, the entire event felt like a particularly bad case of déjà vu to Seth.
But, also because he had already imagined it happening, Seth was prepared for what he had to do next.
Even though his head was spinning, a pattern of black and yellow lights flashing in front of his eyes and a bolt of pain shooting down his spinal-cord every time Seth moved his neck, he responded without thinking.
The car lay on its side. Seth, in the passenger seat, hung in mid-air by the seat-belt strap over what had once been the door but was now the ceiling. Lauren lay underneath him, her left arm trapped beneath her body, the steering column pressed into her chest. She was covered from head to toe in a fine sheen of shattered glass from the windshield. He could only see her in profile. But it was enough to tell that half of her face was dripping blood from a gash in her forehead, down into her eye and nose. It scared him that she didn’t seem to be reacting to it.
Seth’s own window was broken, which explained the series of cuts up and down his right arm. Stuffing his hands into the sleeves of his shirt and rolling the cuffs over several times for good measure, he gripped the window frame, still feeling the loose glass but not as badly as if he’d tried the stunt bare-handed.
He cautiously shifted his weight as he unfastened his seat-belt, testing to see if that made the pain in his back and neck worse, judging it a good sign when the level held steady at sore but not debilitating. He clutched the window and eased himself out of sitting position so that he might lower himself gently next to Lauren, avoiding landing right on top of her once the belt was no longer holding him up.
On his knees, Seth moved his hands up Lauren’s body, feeling for any broken bones as he called, “Laurie? Say something if you can hear me. Nod, at least.”
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About the Author
Alina Adams wrote the “As the World Turns” tie-ins, “Oakdale Confidential” and “The Man From Oakdale,” and co-wrote “Guiding Light’s” “Jonathan’s Story.” She was the Creative Content Producer for “Another World Today,” and worked on the 2013 relaunches of “All My Children” and “One Life To Live.” Her books include romance novels, figure skating murder mysteries, and the historical family saga, “The Nesting Dolls,” from HarperCollins. Read more at: AlinaAdams.com
