The Wrong Woman

Chapter 176

Suzanne found herself teetering on the brink of losing

consciousness. It was as if she had been swallowed by an endless abyss of despair and fear. She trembled in the water, unable to catch a single breath.

In that fleeting moment, death loomed close, and Nathan’s image flashed through her mind. Confronted with the specter of death, he was the sole anchor she clung to desperately.

In a startling twist of events, Sally abruptly released her grip, instead simulating a struggle as if she were drowning, her cries for help piercing the air. “Help!”

Suzanne faintly heard Sally’s desperate pleas, followed by the sound of two splashes.

Her consciousness teetered on the edge as fear filled her, yet she persisted in her struggle, bobbing up and down in the water.

As she emerged from the water’s surface, her hazy eyes caught a glimpse of Nathan’s figure, carrying Sally toward the shore..

Was it an illusion? Why was Nathan here? Did he just save Sally?

The unsettling sensation of dread assured Suzanne that this was no dream. Nathan had returned, opting to rescue the drowning Sally over

her, who could not swim. In that instant, Suzanne’s heart turned cold.

Inch by inch, her body descended, suffocating in the chilling embrace of the water, the eerie weightlessness plaguing her

was lifted upward

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Oliver’s voice anxiously shouting, “Hold on

there!”

desire to cling to life. Death appeared more appealing. Life was a burden too heavy to bear, too painful to endure, and she was

of the abyss, Suzanne felt

her eyes snapped open, above her stretched the white ceiling tiles. Her gaze

accompanied by Oliver

Nathan’s voice was laced with concern as he tightly held Suzanne’s hand. “Are you feeling

She’ withdrew her hand slowly,

he observed Suzanne’s retreat distant gaze. A pang of pain tugged at his

to notice Suzanne submerged beneath the water. Sally had always

childhood, a fear that prevented

in his arms, Suzanne suddenly

by the urgency of saving lives. Nathan

while

could swim, who nearly drowned in