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I turn toward him in shock.

Wait, wait. What just happened? I blink and wipe my eyes.

Ennio’s face is unchanged; the car is exactly where it was before.

I look around stupidly.

What the hell? All the warehouses are intact, and the city is also untouched.

"Holy shit," I mumble. "I can’t believe this," I whisper, climbing back into the car and sinking into the seat beside Ennio.

"A moment ago the whole world blew up, and now everything got reset. You’re all alive again."

I blink and again, vigorously wipe my eyes, even rub them, as waves of shock crawl over my skin.

Ennio stares at me with his wide black eyes.

I nod hard and even smirk in a kinda helpless way.

"Yes, yes, you were dead a moment ago, all the buildings were flattened. In the middle of it all, there was something monstrous, possibly Summer, but I’m not sure. He obliterated half the city. But Bay stopped him, forced him to… I think, to… I don’t know. Undo it. Reverse it. Erase it all."

Ennio keeps staring at me and I know how everything I just said must sound to him, like the ravings of a lunatic.

But to my shock, he just leans back and lifts his vape to his lips like nothing happened, like the world didn’t just fall apart a moment ago. What a cold fucker.

"Apparently we all have our purpose on this planet," he says calmly.

That’s all he says. Silence settles in.

We sit there for a moment, and I feel numb, staring ahead over the driver’s head, as we’re separated from him by the glass partition.

A moment later, Bay walks out of the warehouse carrying his unconscious dad, and from the other one Snow appears with… I guess it has to be Summer… as if nothing happened at all!

Summer looks normal, just an omega, no trace of the darkness or those terrifying wings.

I sit there watching it all like I’m seeing it on a TV screen.

Minutes stretch; time feels like it’s flowing somewhere outside of me. I feel even more desynchronized than before, like I’m existing half out of time.

It takes me a long moment to pull myself together.

I notice Snow and Summer turning behind warehouse C34, and Bay heading toward us.

"Will you do me a favor and stay in the car now?" Ennio asks with a sarcastic smirk, almost as if doubting he could ever persuade me to do so.

I nod numbly, too stiff to say anything.

Ennio gets out, walks toward Bay’s car, and opens the door. Bay settles his unconscious dad in the back seat and exchanges a few quiet words with Ennio, they’re both leaning in, whispering, careful I won’t hear it.

Then… he comes up to me.

He leans down through the open door and looks into my face.

"Alex, are you alright? It’s over now. Everything is fine. My dad is safe and so are Summer and Snow."

I swallow hard, snapping out of my daze.

"I saw it, you know. He destroyed everything."