VINCENZO CASTILLO
The moment my eyes cracked open, a wave of pain punched through my body.
It wasn’t just a sting, it was like my skin had been dragged across fire and left to blister. My muscles screamed with every breath, and my head throbbed like someone was hammering from the inside out.
The air was hot and stale. The room was barely lit, the shadows clinging to the walls like secrets.
I tried to lift my arm,
Nothing.
Just a burning strain that pulled at my wrist.
Sh*t!.
I was tied down... to the bed.
The pressure in my skull intensified, and just then,
Memories came crashing in like a flood.
Jeoffrey… screaming.
Giulia’s eyes, wide and terrified.
That moment. The night of the explosion.
The way I shielded him. The way the heat swallowed us... And the world was going dark
