"You're fine," Dai Lin, himself a surgeon, said. With eyes that now rivaled a CT scanner, he could see Alex's condition clear as day.
"I, I..." Alex recalled how a bullet had nearly grazed his cheek, and the people who had died behind him.
There were dead people!
Someone had died!
The reason he was so persistent in meeting Melody time and again was predominantly because this curse never resulted in harm or death to him, Melody, or any innocent people.
The gang shooting didn't count; they were all criminals, and in Alex's eyes, the more of them that died, the better.
But now, innocents had died because they'd been dragged into this due to him!
"How could this happen... In the past, innocents were never dragged into this." Alex began to speak incoherently. "Why did someone die... What exactly does this curse want... Is it simply to prevent me from meeting Melody???"
