The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0576

At the last moment, I reached out and grabbed her wrist with my hand. She hadn't been expecting it, so she was unprepared for the sudden weight. Holding tightly, I pulled her as I fell, so that we both toppled over the side of the boat and into the water.

The ocean water was deep and cold. I hadn't been expecting the fall so I had not properly inhaled. I was quickly running out of air as I thrashed and kicked, searching near-endlessly for the surface.

Occasionally my thrashing hand or elbow or knee knocked into Bridget. She was struggling too.

Then, finally, blessedly, I breached the surface and sucked in a large, deep breath. Looking around, I saw the boat still pushing forward. Beside me, Bridget's head rose above the water. I had to do a double take, to make sure it was her.

Her hair was soaked, streaking down over her face. But through those blonde messy streaks was a face blotched with reds and tans and running mascara streaking down her face. She always made it seem so natural, I had no idea she had so much makeup on.

What was most surprising however, was the look of absolute murder on Bridget's face. She glared at me, rage burning in her eyeliner crusted eyes.

"Look at what you did to me!" she shouted so loudly her voice broke. "Look at my fucking face!"

With the harsh waves, it was difficult to keep above water. I kept bobbing up and down. I dipped below a few times but forced myself back up. Each time I resurfaced, Bridget's fury met me, both in her glare and in her voice.

"How could you do this to me?!*

Enough was enough. This woman was seemingly forgetting that she had pushed me first. I'd had well enough of her bullshit, even with the terror gripping through me. We were adrift, with the endless blue beneath us and our ship driving away. But somehow I was the focal point of Bridget's attention.

"You. Pushed. Me!" I shouted back. "You tried to kill me!"

"What?" Bridget yelled. She dipped underwater. I did too. When we both resurfaced again, I screamed, "You were going to kill me!"

"You're delusional!" Bridget shouted.

"You pushed me!"

"You slipped! Then you tried to drag me!"

"Because you pushed me!"

crashing this way and that, it was difficult to keep track of which way meant safety and which way was death. Only with my eyes

light, I found my

movement flickering through the light beams illuminated in

off running as if in a marathon. My adrenaline surged, forcing me to kick to push, to reach the surface again and

most likely. But I would also do my best to save my life. And to save

I needed Nicholas.

for me. I wouldn't abandon her like her biological mother did. I would fight for my life to get back to

I breached the water.

"Nicholas!!"

at me. "Who do you think you

back. A merfolk head was starting to appear at the water's surface, and panic and fear clawed so tightly at my throat that I couldn't

Bridget. I knew she wasn't going to help me. That was reason enough

nothing but my

me some advantage. If he pulled me under the water, I would never come up

surfaced. I readied my

not

was not Ronan. Instead, it was one of the Ambassador's soldiers

enemy. He

I lowered my

the water, as

listened closely to his words. I tried to take them to heart, but my heart was too busy beating out of control. "May I touch you?" the merfolk solider asked. "I can

me underwater. I reached out to the merfolk who took that as the consent it was and lifted me up above

only touching my arm, but the strength of him and his massive fish tail

ship that you have fallen overboard," the merfolk said. "They are

the ship had stopped. Nearby, I noticed that a second merfolk had stopped to help Bridget as

Nicholas been

person began to swim towards us at a