Can’t Win Me Back

As night fell, fierce winds swept over the pitch-black skies, pressing down heavily on the endless sea.

The surging waves hinted at an impending storm, with all life rising and falling as though it could be consumed, crushed, and destroyed at any moment.

Waves crashed against the beach on Rose Island.

Alyssa didn't have time to change out of her fiery red dress before scrambling into the helicopter parked on the shore.

Though she had regained some energy, her body remained weak.

But she knew she couldn't afford to hesitate.

Jameson hadn't come with her next tranquilizer shot tonight.

This was her one chance to escape! The memory of flying a helicopter was faint, buried in the past, but she had to try.

She had to fight with everything she had, even if it meant death.

Alyssa slipped into the cockpit, her breath caught in her throat.

The red dress she wore was soaked in cold sweat.

She checked the fuel gauge, started the ignition, and the helicopter's blades began to rotate.

"Alyssa Taylor, you will leave this place.

Hang in there...

her teeth as she

her name

locked onto him, cold and

reddened eyes burned with a hatred deeper than the

off the ground, three shots rang out

drowned out the gunfire, but a bullet

widened in

"No! Stop!" he yelled.

on the Luminara battlefield flooded back, sending her heart racing and

tightened her grip on the control stick, her desperation to

and ruthless, as if they intended to end her

bullets missed

they struck the helicopter's

lights blinked

Alyssa cursed, pounding on the

a stop, and everything

the sound of waves

as if the waves were mocking her

over, drained of

Remy, who approached

Alyssa could have died if his aim had been off? Remy walked to the cockpit

Alyssa sat like a fragile doll, her eyes staring vacantly ahead, tears streaming down