Chapter 347: Easy Choice
The human mind was really something else. When it came to decisions that were easy, Derek would sometimes find himself agonizing over which choice to make. Things like buying himself a car as a treat.
He would often spend days trying to figure out exactly what colour he wanted, only to give in and buy the car in two different shades. But when it came to what should have been the most difficult decision in the world to make. A split second was all that it had taken for himto pick.
In what had felt like no time at all, Derek had looked at the ways to die placed before him, and he had decided that jumping was their best bet. If he’d stayed on the bridge and had tried to fight, then he’d run the chance of getting shot at close range.
Very few people survived close range shots, and that was not something he was willing to put Emily through. But again, if he’d returned to the car like he had promised his uncle he would do.Then they were definitely going to die in there.
The death slow and painful, with them having a few minutes to panic and be terrified before their end. He had not wanted Emily to go through that. The car had shatterproof glass after all. It would have been impossible to break it and then swim out.
It would literally have become their coffin. So jumping had been all that they had really.The only thing that he’d had left to do after coming to that conclusion was getting Emily on his side. He’d expected some hesitation from her. For her to want to take her chances with something else. But after listening to his hurried whispers. Emily had said yes without hesitation.
For as long as Derek lived, he would never forget that moment. He knew for a fact that Emily loved him because she had told him so. But to see it in the easy way that she trusted him, ready to jump because he said that they had to.
It was a heady feeling.
Emily could not swim and stayed out of the water. But she loved him, trusted him so much that when he’d said jump. She had done it without a second thought, trusting him with her life. ’I love you, I love you, I love you...’ Derek had thought as they had run the short distance to the edge of the bridge.