Rescuers, arriving at the scene, were greeted by the mangled door.

When they pried it open, their faces registered sheer astonishment.

Conventional wisdom held that in a crash, a driver’s instinct might swerve the vehicle.

Contrary to that, the driver in front of them had done the opposite and taken the impact head-on.

Leonel’s thighs were drenched in blood, the crimson stark against the grey fabric of his suit, a grisly sight.

His legs, trapped and immobile, continued to bleed.

Propped against the seat, Leonel’s voice was faint.

“My wife, my daughter-where are they?”

Recognized immediately by the rescue team as the well-known Leonel Douglas from Duefron, they hastened to his aid.

“They’re safe,” they assured him.

has a minor bruise; she’s just passed

your daughter is

Don’t worry, Mr. Douglas.

trickled down Leonel’s brow as

Alexis was out of the

exhaustion, and his mind began to

pain beyond what most could withstand, and it sent him

rescuer was Cordelia, his daughter with Alexis,

escaped her Lips-a single

“Da—”

voice in his ears, Leonel’s

the darkness, he imagined

flooded in-him and Alexis, years ago, stretched out on the grass, sharing a quiet moment under

had blazed across the sky, their silence

think of the name Cordelia? I think it’s beautiful, and I’d

Leonel towered almost six

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