When the truck hit us, it felt like the entire world flipped. One second I was blinking away the morning fog, thinking about Evelyn’s eyes when I left, and the next—I was airborne.
Then the water swallowed us whole.
A cold, crushing silence engulfed everything. It was as if the universe had been sucked dry of sound and light. My chest locked up, my lungs were screaming for air. Water poured into the vehicle from all directions. It was so icy and heavy. My head smacked hard against the side window—I saw stars before I saw darkness.
I drifted. Consciousness slipped in and out, like static on a broken radio.
Then—tapping. I felt hands on my chest followed by a muffled voice. Again.
“Boss… Boss, wake up! Come on! Nathaniel!”
The fog in my head cleared slightly.
Raynolds!
I opened my e
