Ryan stared ahead, his expression grim.

He had already checked the car—its brakes were completely non-functional, and it was a sports car, which was speeding up rapidly and impossible to stop now.

There was no saving it...

Even with the situation analyzed, Ryan maintained his composure as he turned to Ellie. "What did you have for breakfast this morning?"

With tears streaming down her face and panic etched on her features, Ellie blinked at him, clearly confused. "What did you say, Ryan?"

"I asked if you had breakfast."

"It's the middle of a crisis! Why are you asking about food?" She gasped, "We're going too fast to make that turn…!"

"So, you did eat?" Ryan pressed, his tone steady.

"Yeah, I did."

"Good. At least you won't be starving when you die."

"..."

Hearing this, Ellie's tears flowed even more freely. "But I don't want to die! I don't want to die!" she sobbed.

his eyes fixed on the road. "Ahead, there's a river. You can swim. When we get close, you need to jump out! There's still a

it! You're a better swimmer than I

someone needed to control the steering wheel at that speed. If they both jumped at the same time, the

was handing her the

replied to her insistence, "I'm your brother; I need to protect

I can't let you take

you jump, it's likely a death sentence,

"...Ryan, is dying painful?"

If the car crashes, we'll probably die very quickly, so we

was silence, her eyes wide. Not be

said, tears cascading down

in the car, while outside, a group at the Cobb family estate stood

a blur, almost a flash, leaving them stunned as

wouldn't be able to

saw the car fishtail around a

to take the wheel, if he hadn't had any experience with racing, they wouldn't have made it through that

Selena gasped in disbelief.

to the driver's

dashed over, grabbing Keira's arm. "What are you doing? You can't possibly think about going to save them! I get it; if you rescue them, we can continue our partnership, but this is reckless! Besides, that's a sports car; there's no way your car can catch

Keira pushed her hand away,

shouted, pounding on the door. "The South family's prophecies are never wrong! If it says there'll be an accident at ten o'clock, then there will be! If you try to save them,

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