Chapter 330: ONE TWO THREE
At first, the swing felt right. The air rushed past his ears. The vine held.
But just as he reached the center, right above the deepest part of the quicksand, there was a snap.
A small one.
It wasn’t the vine…. yet
It was the branch it was tied to.
It cracked.
Then groaned.
Ekene’s hands slipped a little as the vine groaned under his weight.
“Wait” he gasped.
The thick vine holding him began to fray at the middle, the fibers visibly unraveling, strands tearing one by one like snapping violin strings.
Panic flooded his face as the realization hit him, if this vine gave way, he would plummet straight into the quicksand, and the speed of the fall would sink him instantly, like a stone crashing into a swamp.
“Ekene hold on!” Nnenna shouted, already scanning the trees.
“I can’t! I’m slipping!” His voice cracked, the fear raw and human.
Abuchi reached out, instinctively grabbing her arm. “Nnenna, don’t—!”
But she was already moving.
With a surge of adrenaline, Nnenna lunged toward a tree on the opposite side and seized another vine, one even thicker and longer than the last. She tested it quickly, fingers trembling but eyes clear with resolve.
love system whispered in her head, Let me help. Use your
she said out loud, jaw
aiming for the vine Ekene still clung to. It was already fraying at the core, just seconds from
mid swing. “You have
“I can’t! I’ll fall—!”
“I need you to grab my vine on the count of
air like a
“One—”
groaned
“Two—”
swallowed hard, palms slick,
“Three!”
a shout,
a heart stopping second, he
held firm. Her arms screamed. Her shoulders
“NOW!”
go together, crashing onto the solid earth on the far side of the quicksand pit,
Gasping. Alive.
them, pulling them upright, disbelief and relief mixing
coming in sharp bursts, heart still racing like a wild drum. The shock of nearly dying hadn’t faded yet, but something stronger, deeper, was
other brushing strands of hair off her sweaty forehead. Her chest rose and fell quickly. She didn’t speak, but
he said, voice barely above
as if she didn’t expect him to say anything at all since he was still in
twice. I, I was
tired smile. “We’re in
it hit him right
fought, how she put others first even when no one asked her to. He had tried to suppress it, tried to act normal, but after
was in love
deeply, unshakably in love
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