Celeste Bradley - [The Liar's Club 03] by The Charmer

Author:The Charmer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Collis was close to panic. He was losing her. Oh-dear-God-in-heaven, he was losing her! He’d tried pulling her to him, but his bloody hand couldn’t seem to hold and pull at the same time. He’d almost let go.

He willed himself to tighten his grip, no matter if he broke her wrist, but he couldn’t feel her, couldn’t even see their hands in the rising water. She went under, her dark hair disappearing beneath the darker water. For one eternal fraction of a second, he couldn’t even be sure he still held her. But then the agonizing pull on his other stretched arm assured him that he did. She emerged from the water, bobbing up with a gasp he saw more than heard. He watched in horror as her wrist emerged still farther from his grip.

“Rose, you have to help me! Help me, Rose!”

She turned dull eyes to his, blinking sluggishly against the drops hitting her face. Her lips moved. Collis.

“Rose, snap out of it, damn it!” Collis cried, his voice hoarse with fear. “Are you a hothouse flower, to give up after a little chill?”

A spark lit her eyes for a moment at his taunt. Good. “Common as a weed, isn’t that the way of it?” He watched her struggle to draw her other hand against the current to grip his. It slipped away, circling his wrist like a delicate manacle, then falling away. He was losing her.

“Come on, Thorny Rose!” he shouted. “What, can’t you handle a bit of water without a mop in your hands? Poor little Rose, has to struggle so hard,” he mocked viciously. Her hand rose again, creeping toward his. She faltered. He’d thought he couldn’t be more afraid, yet every moment drove him deeper into panic. “I’ll let the Liars know you gave up, Rose! I’ll tell Clara you quit on her!”

Light flared in her eyes and he saw her hand wrap firmly around his wrist. He pulled again, and this time she came with him, closer, closer, until he could drag them both one rung higher on the ladder. Then another. Their feet free of the water at last, he crushed her to him with his aching right arm.

She hung limply, so cold—and nearly unconscious by the look of her. He pressed his face into her icy neck for the duration of one broken breath. Safe.

His precious, beloved Rose, by God, safe in his arms.

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