Chapter 0520

Neah

He tips my head back and leaves a lingering kiss on my lips. "How is it that you can be so hopeful after everything that has happened in your life?"

"Because it's not me I'm thinking about." My hands sit on my small bump, "I know if there is a problem, we can handle it. Because that is what we do. That doesn't mean I want that for any of our pups."

"Which is why you are not keen on exploring the White Cliffs topic." He softly combs his fingers through my curls. "It's not about you, it's about the ones who call you mum. You want to protect them."

He presses his lips against mine once more. The waves that had barely been licking our feet, suddenly crash into me. Dane does everything in his power to hold on to me as we are both knocked over into the water.

He loses his grip on me and the waves drag me out from the beach and away from him. My heart races as panic sets in. I had no idea how to swim.

Just as my face clears the surface to take a breath. Another wave hits me and sucks me down. As I'm pulled beneath the surface, hands find my shoulders. They half drag me, half carry me from the sea and up the beach as I try to spit and cough out all the sea water I had swallowed.

"Are you good?" I look up at Dane. He's leaning over me, his black hair is wet and stuck down to his forehead. Crimson eyes are etched with concern, but it wasn't him. That odd accent rings in my ears as he repeats the words. Turning my head, I see Dane a few metres from us, hunched over and spitting up water

It takes a second for my senses to fall back into place as Nyx mutters 'That's Silas.'

"Silas?" I splutter at the man standing over me.

waiting patiently by the car." He points up the beach as if I didn't know where the car was. "Neither of you were paying attention to the waves. Just because you are capable of healing, it does not mean

us?" I frown

"I saw the wave hit you and drag

up more water as he raises an

*Interesting."

Dane mutters as he crawls

to myself." Silas tells him, holding them up. "Would you rather that I didn't help? I could have left her to drown, though that would have been unnecessary and would have

explain why you

you?" Silas sneers. "I would say it was the other way round. There is a small house just up there, around the curve

you." I mutter. I thought it would have been obvious after the restaurant, but it's only now, up close that I could smell him but it was still mixed with the scent of

staying near the beach." He tells me. "The mix of the sea breeze, the constant air flow and the scents of mother nature is enough

been here?" I ask as Dane checks me

week." Silas tells

were you waiting by the car?"

why you followed me. It's not like you have tried to find me previously, is it? And again, you were

was told you were

stares at him. "And don't say you didn't know. Because this is not the reaction

is frustrated. I see the way he stares at Silas, ready to break his jaw. "And what about you, it sounds like you

Silas's crimson eyes shift to me. Likely because I hadn't

He winks at me.

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