Chapter 0554

I'd promised to be careful, and I would be. But I didn't know how careful I could be when I was swimming out in the ocean, unable to fully take notice of my surroundings.

To have a friend like Veronica, someone I trusted so implicitly, guarding my back, gave me relief without measure.

*Thank you, Veronica," I said. "I mean it."

She nodded.

Near us, about halfway between us and Bridget, Jessica was stretching alone. Watching her, she seemed to be the least flexible of the ground. Perhaps the least athletic? Her deep-set frown seemed to indicate that she was not at all happy about today's event.

"Don't be overconfident," Veronica said softly, so that Jessica would not hear. "Jessica has never flexed her wolf before. We'd don't know what she's truly capable of."

I took the words to heart. Everyone and everything felt like a wild card today. Who knew what the race might bring out of its contenders today?

could. Concentrating on myself, I push-pulled my muscles to ready them for the strain I was to

overly confident about all this. But when I had worked at the restaurant, I had pushed myself for long hours, on

notice Bridget approach us until she

"Elva," she said, smiling.

stretching and was sitting on the sand. She wasn't making a sandcastle exactly. What she was doing was more like moving sand from one

the sand she'd been holding like she'd done

did you need, Bridget?" I asked, standing up for my little

me at all. Her smile stretched wider, as big and bright

for a minute? I have something to show you," Bridget

for the

said. "It's just a little surprise, but it will give her something to do while we're all competing. Just watching must be so dull for a

her emotions. She was too young. Although she might have come

seemed to be taking after

want to," I told Elva. She looked

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