Chapter Forty-Three
Devin considered what was happening for only a couple seconds, then he forced his door open against the airflow at seventy miles per hour. He clutched his bag and threw himself out of the still accelerating car, gripping the back of his head so that his arms protected the skull, with the bag pressed into his face. He needed to survive the accident, even for just a few seconds. He slammed against the ground with extreme force. It happened so fast he couldn’t be sure of everything that he injured. He felt something in his right shoulder break, and then as he tumbled across the asphalt, his hip and pelvis had something catastrophic happen. He also felt his left leg bending in a way that it was never intended to.
When he came to rest, he knew that there were many other in
