Contract With Alpha Logan

Chapter 132

Astrid POV

It was a pool party, but I didn’t know how to swim. My parents tried their best to teach me swimming, but some incident from the past always stopped me. I don’t remember clearly, but through the haze of memories, I remember someone trying to drown me. The big hands of that person were imprinted on my memory when they pushed my little belly beneath water and didn’t allow me to come up.

I smelled the mojito in my hand as I walked towards the pool. It had alcohol. That was the last thing I wanted to have. I found an empty chaise chair and sprawled on it, keeping the glass aside on the table. My eyes went to the girls and boys who were playing water polo. They were splashing a lot of water as they laughed and giggled and chatted nonstop. A smile came to my lips, watching them having fun. This looked so normal.

“You haven’t had that?” Tracy’s voice made me jerk my head to the right. She was coming in my direction with two of her friends. They sat on a chaise lounge next to mine with Tracy in the middle. I looked at her two friends, who were both grinning and looking at the students in the pool with interest.

“I–I don’t have alcohol,” I replied with a shrug.

“What?” she almost snickered. “This is not alcohol,” she said, pointing at my glass. “This is an energy drink for us teenagers.”

I giggled. “No, I’m okay.”

She huffed. “Okay, then take this,” she said, handing me her half–finished ginger ale. “At least have something!” She nudged her friend with her elbow. “Can you bring us some snacks?”

and got a tray full of peanuts, finger fries and quesadillas. Hungry, I picked up a handful of fries and stuffed them in my mouth, moaning at the

try it

the ale to my mouth and sniffed it.

head. “Stop it, Astrid!” She pointed at others in the party. “Look, everyone is doing it. Don’t be such a baby. It’s not like I am going to drug you!” She rolled her eyes and looked annoyed. “Anyway, I won’t

was the odd one out. As I scanned the crowd around me, I noticed that

But I could sense a few others checking me out. Some snickered, while a few giggled and whispered,

sipped a little to

so bad?” Tracy

and clapping for me. Embarrassed as hell and feeling a little baby in the corner, I

at me and said, “Do you

body felt heated. The clothes on my body felt like they would burn me. I removed my shirt and shorts and took a deep breath in. “Yay!” I shouted, suddenly feeling excited and happy and having a burning need for something. The bikini

skin. I needed to

warbled voice asked me from behind. My vision went awry. Like everyone was in

myself unable to grasp the situation as the strings of my bikini top and bottom were suddenly untied. They fell to the floor, and I laughed at them for misbehaving. “Come back to me, you morons!” I heard others laughing at me. I bent down to pick them up, and then there was a splash. Water surrounded me everywhere. Panic returned

I couldn’t breathe properly. My limbs seemed to work like my thoughts, in slow motion. “Please…” I said to someone. “Water…

breath, with no one to save me. I started sinking deep in the pool, giving way to the darkness, numbness that was overtaking me slowly. It was impossible to fight it because my body was freezing up. What a way to die? Soon, I was resting on the floor of the pool, naked, waiting for the God of death

called me.