Troubled Waters by Susan May Warren

Author:Susan May Warren
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance;Love stories;FIC042040;FIC027020;FIC027260
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2017-10-05T04:00:00+00:00

Please, God, she didn’t want to die.

Especially not at sea. Her body lost in the depths.

Alone.

It happened so fast, Sierra couldn’t get her brain around it—one second, Dex was telling her how he wanted her to come to Texas to be his assistant—the next she’d slammed against him so hard she’d knocked him backward. He’d just about righted himself and grabbed for her when the boat rolled the other way.

She’d fallen backward and hit the rail, and before she could catch herself, the wave washed her out to sea.

The force of it rolled her into the depths, turning her, and she fought the pull of the current to drag her away from the yacht, a scream trapped in her chest.

Don’t panic.

The words crested through her, a steel hand as she kept churning her arms, her legs, fighting.

The wave finally released her. She popped above the surface, coughing, searching for the yacht.

To her horror, the Montana Rose listed on its side in the waves, halfway submerged.

Dex had vanished, swallowed by the ocean.

“Help!”

She kicked hard toward the yacht, but the swells in the aftermath of the wave fought her. Seawater burned her eyes, her nasal passages, the water suddenly frigid.

Another wave crested over her head, blinding her.

When she popped back up, she heard her name on the wind. Or maybe imagined it, but it sounded like Ian. Oh, please—

“Ian!”

She’d clawed her way back into the pool of light given off by the submerged vessel, and now she made out a form crawling over the boat, on top of the side railing.

Ian! She recognized his form against the hue of light. And the fact that he wasn’t trapped in his room, drowning, turned her weak. As she watched, he reached the stern and released something into the water. In a moment, it inflated, and relief whooshed through her.

The life raft.

“Hang on, Sierra!”

The waves had pushed her out of the perimeter of light, but she swam hard toward the raft, gulping in too much water, blinking against the stinging salt. She wasn’t going to die out here. She would get on that raft, and then she’d figure out how to get everyone else off the ship before it sank.

She felt the next wave gather beneath her even as the lifeboat loomed large, bright yellow and orange, a beacon illuminated by the back lights of the yacht. The wave sucked her toward the raft, a great current that made her scream even as she rolled over, fighting the pull.

The life raft slid by her. No!

Then mooring rope slapped her hand, and in a second of panicked brilliance, she grabbed it.

Held on as if her life depended on it. She managed to reach the raft, and she swam under it, looping her hands through the righting straps along the bottom.

The wave hit. The force of it launched the raft forward, upended it, and nearly yanked the straps from Sierra’s arms. But she had the raft in a death grip and rolled over onto the top of it, clinging to it as the wave pushed her away from the yacht.

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