Chapter forty five: I love you

She smiled in his arms letting hot tears moisturizer her cheeks while he clasped her frame that was losing stamina by the second. Silence rang through Nick’s head as a glimpse of his mother’s last memories swept through his mind, a memory he thought he could never recover. His brain finally caught up to reality as he lifted his hands to behold a palm filled with Arya’s blood.

Time started ticking again for Nick as he carried her bridal style into the car and declared “drive. Fast!”. He clenched his chest in fright wondering why it felt like his inside was twisting, grinding and slowly ripping to shreds. Minutes later all ears were filled with siren wails as the stretcher wheeled in Arya to the emergency ward.

For someone who has never experienced such burst of emotions, Nick was really doing a good job keeping his composure but I guess maybe he was just too good at it ‘cause the next second Lucious stormed towards Nick who was standing outside the theater and threw him a punch that ti