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?”

nodding. She went in and got a tray full of peanuts, finger fries and quesadillas. Hungry, I picked up a handful

“Now try it with ginger ale,” she

the ale to my mouth and sniffed it. “Have you mixed alcohol

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 force you, but don’t be a wuss. I’ve given you only half the

the crowd around me, I noticed that

in me. That wasn’t what bothered me. But I could sense a few others checking me out. Some snickered, while a few

little to

it so bad?”

as hell and feeling a little baby in the corner, I drank it all. Everyone cheered me and then laughed, returning to whatever they were doing. I

at me and said, “Do you

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 top and bottom felt

skin. I needed to

vision went awry. Like everyone was in a frame and they emerged

at them for misbehaving. “Come back to me, you morons!” I heard others laughing at me. I

and then I went down again. Though the water cooled my body, I couldn’t breathe properly. My limbs seemed to work like my thoughts, in slow motion. “Please…” I

freezing up. What a way to die? Soon, I was resting on the floor of the pool, naked, waiting for the God of death to come. I think he came because he grabbed my hair and pulled me out of the water. After that, I don’t know what happened. I welcomed the darkness which surrounded me. It was so beautiful, so cold. Would I meet my parents? They would be very disappointed in me for dying

Someone called me.