Submerged by Tardif Cheryl Kaye

Author:Tardif, Cheryl Kaye [Tardif, Cheryl Kaye]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Imajin Books
Published: 2013-02-25T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

Near Cadomin, AB – Saturday, June 15, 2013 – 12:20 AM

Rebecca felt an unusual pressure on her face. Fighting waves of dizziness, she opened her eyes and blinked twice. Her surroundings were hazy.

Where am I?

She reached up to wipe her eyes, but her hand floated in slow motion, then connected with something hard. Her fingers grazed the object, tracing its outline.

A mask.

That's when her memories came rushing back. I'm in the car. We’re in the river, underwater. Oh God… Ella and Colton.

She blew out a breath and twisted in her seat. The back of the car was empty. Fear slithered up her throat, and her heart thudded in her chest. She tamped down her horror when she noticed the back car door was open.

And you have an oxygen mask on. Marcus! He has the kids.

The interior light dimmed and was extinguished. Blackness swallowed her.

She felt the cold tank beside her. Marcus had jammed it between the seats. She ran her fingers over the straps and discovered something long and sleek attached to it. A flashlight.

Carefully, she pulled it toward her and turned it on. She groaned with relief. That transitory gloom of darkness had made her feel she'd been buried alive.

Stay calm. He's coming back for you.

All she could do was listen to the sound of her breathing, as erratic as it was.

She'd never been so cold in all her life—not even the time Wesley had taken her skiing in Whistler, BC, and she'd landed in a snow bank at the bottom of the bunny hill. She'd told him she couldn't ski, but he'd made it sound so damned easy. She recalled how they'd gone back to the resort afterward and she'd soaked in the hot tub for over an hour to get the chill out of her bones.

I'll need more than an hour in a hot tub now.

She coughed and cried out in misery. Where was Marcus?

She aimed the flashlight out the broken window. Nothing moved.

It was getting harder to breathe. Is the tank out of oxygen?

She shone the light on the tank. The meter showed a nearly full tank. So then why was it so hard to breathe? Was she having a panic attack?

Something caught her eye. A sparkle in the water.

Marcus was coming for her.

She let out a wheezy cough and tried to catch her breath. A viselike undulation wove around her chest and ribs, squeezing her as though she'd been gripped by a monstrous boa constrictor. It wrung each breath from her body and left her gasping for air and shuddering with nausea.

She dropped the flashlight.

Whipping her head around, she searched for Marcus. His light beamed closer. He was almost there. Another minute maybe. She could hold on that long. She had to.

Seconds ticked by with a merciless slowness.

Then she saw him.

Marcus swam to the window and motioned with his flashlight and a small tool toward her seat belt. She nodded and pointed to her mask, hoping he'd decipher that she was having trouble breathing. The look he gave her made her realize he knew exactly the danger she was in.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.