Chapter 104

**GWEN**

I didn't know how long I was transfixed to a spot in that water after Merit left. I just knew that for a moment I didn't know how to react to her threat and just as I was about to leave the water, I felt something like a shadow pass over the water and became motionless at once.

I thought Merit was going to do something heinous to me, the water being the least of my problem, but when I saw that shadow, I knew I was going to die for sure.

Then boom, someone was inside the water, snapping me out of my shock and I recovered, my first instinct being to run. Run to where? I didn't know, merely striving to try my best.

"It's me, my love," Ashton said, and I have never felt the level of relieve I had at that point which I concealed by slapping at his arms.

"You startled me."

He didn't let me finish and covered my mouth with a scintillating toe-curling kiss that had my head spinning that I forgot about my fear, my body engulfed by his heavenly charms. He appeared excited this evening