“Jasmine, wait!” Gabriel’s voice boomed through the phone.
I held the steering wheel with trembling hands, ignoring the buzzing vibration on the dashboard. Lily was in the backseat, happily humming to a song playing on her tablet, completely unaware of the panic rising in me. My knuckles turned white as I tried to steady myself.
“You almost killed me,” I whispered under my breath, thinking of Colin’s sinister threat in the parking lot: “You’ll regret choosing him.”
Colin had always been vindictive, but I never imagined he’d escalate things this far. I glanced in the rearview mirror at Lily, the only reason I kept fighting through every storm life hurled at me. My heart clenched at the thought of what could’ve happened.
The brakes had failed without warning on the winding road near down
