Chapter 8

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Natalie's foot burned with an agonizing pain as she started to sink.

The elderly lady, Emma Spencer, was gasping for air. Her leg had seized up from a sharp sting on the bottom of her foot, and being in deep water, the situation could have turned dire without Natalie's help.

As Emma looked on with, increasing concern, Natalie vanished beneath the water's surface. "Miss, are you okay? You must get out of there right away!" she called out.

Despite the searing pain, Natalie managed to push herself back to the surface, her heart pounding.

Emma noticed the blood in the water and the stains on Natalie's clothes. Her eyes filled with dread as she realized someone had tampered with the pool.

reach out, but

She fought to get out but ended up collapsing next to Emma. The world spun, and something in the water

there's something in the water. It's draining our strength, Natalie said, her clothes soaked, her foot bleeding profusely. The wound on her

at Natalie's wound, which was worse than her own, and felt her own strength ebbing away. "It's okay. My bodyguard will be here any moment. Thank you for saving me. Without you, I would have died here today."

bodyguard rushed over, panic in

take her to the hospital. She's

bodyguard hesitated. "Mrs. Spencer, let me take you

to the hospital now," Emma

didn't delay and carried Natalie to the hospital.

Emma, and shouted, "Help! Someone has fallen into the water." Just then, Emma's grandson, Murray

woman, but with a masculine grace that was not at all overly delicate. Tall

gazed at the good-looking man before her, her eyes widening. Compared to the distant figure of Easton, someone like Murray was

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