Chapter 272

-Ava’s POV-

Darkness.

Cold.

The ocean swallowed me whole, its icy fingers clawing at my skin, dragging me deeper into the abyss. The salt burned my throat, my lungs screamed, but no air came. The weight of the water pressed in from all sides, crushing, endless.

I kicked, thrashed, fought. But the surface was too far. My limbs were slow, heavy, the cold stealing the last of my strength.

I was drowning.

And all I could think of was everything I was about to lose.

I would never see my children. Never hold them in my arms, never hear their laughter.

I would never see Grayson again.

His eyes. His touch. The way he looked at me like I was his whole world.

I would never see Isabella. I would never see anyone ever again.

A fresh wave of panic surged through me, but my body was failing. My chest burned, my vision blurred. The fight in me was slipping away.

No. No, not like this.

I forced my arms to move, kicking weakly against the pull of the ocean, but the current was too strong. My lungs convulsed, desperate for air, and my lips parted against my will.

Saltwater rushed in.

Agony tore through my body as I choked. My mind screamed, but the ocean did not care. The ocean did not listen.

This was it.

This was how I was going to die.

I reached for my wolf.

Nothing.

I reached for something–the essence–anything–inside me that could help, that could fight, but there was only silence.

I was truly alone.

The realization settled deep in my chest, heavier than the water pressing in around me. My body knew before my It knew that this was the end.

The fight bled out of me.

My limbs stopped thrashing.

The panic faded.

A did.

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the first time, the water wasn’t the enemy. It was quiet Peaceful

held me in its arms like a mother soothing a restless

This was it.

my

something shifted

rippled through the water, a pulse that wasn’t from the ocean. My chest tightened, but not from lack of air. My skin tingled, a warmth blooming in my core, spreading, through my veins, stronger than the

water rushed around me, moving, swirling–not to drag

and for the first time,

The water obeyed.

crushing me anymore. It wasn’t drowning me. It was

no longer a force of destruction but something else entirely–something ancient, something connected to me in a way I had never understood before.

my eyes, but they didn’t fall.

the ocean and

final push, a surge of power, and

Up.

than I should have.

anything

surface exploded above me as I broke through, gasping, choking, coughing up saltwater. The air hit my lungs like fire, my entire body shaking as I struggled to stay afloat. My vision blurred, spots dancing in front of my eyes.

in the distance. My body

I was alive.

I was breathing.

gulps of air, my limbs aching, my mind

I saw him.

the edge of the ship, his face filled with shock, his body rigid. His mouth moved, but I couldn’t hear the words over the

through

No. Stay away.

myself through the water, but I was weak, my

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was coming down to

choked out, my voice raw

He didn’t stop.

it this time and it tore from my throat, raw,

from me, an invisible force cracked through the air and sent Dylan flying backward. His body hit the railing of the ship with a sickening theard before he crumpled onto the

to pause, the only sound the ragged gasps tearing from my lips. My heart thundered in my chest, my

Move

was screaming–my lungs, my muscles, my head

weakly beneath me. The ship loomed above, the slick metal hull stretching high, impossible to climb. My fingers scraped against

groaned. He was stirring,

no, no.

He was going to get up. He was going to come down here and–No. I wouldn’t

onto the metal steps of the ship’s side ladder. My body trembled, my fingers

didn’t feel the pain anymore.

didn’t feel the

I felt was survival.

deck, my entire body was shaking. My breath came in ragged gasps, my fingers barely able

would not die here. I was going to give birth to my children and it was going to be at the end of this madness.

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