PART 13 - CHAPTER 1

Suddenly I wake up, startled. The smoke from the engine is still spreading into the sky. I mustn’t have lost consciousness for long. My neck hurts, but I feel like this is just the beginning of the pain. Still in shock, the few rays of sunlight that penetrate the clouds look like divine light. I turn towards the passenger seat, but she has disappeared. She left me, all this romance was too good to be true. I open my pack and smoke a cigarette. I quickly recognize the harsh and soulless taste of Malboro Reds, they aren’t mine. She would never leave without her cigarettes, in just a few days she had proven to me all her love for nicotine and long cigarettes. Memories are coming back to me, I remember the grille of the C63 in my rearview mirror, a few centimeters away from my bumper before the big jump into the void. It was probably those guys who were after her. Something's wrong, I need to go back to the apartment