Chapter 11

CHAPTER 11

"It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me." - Sheryl Lee

JORDAN POV

It felt like being dunked into a pool of molten lava.

The chlorine as it sipped into the plastic cast and passed the bandages into my sore wound.

I tried for the laps, kicking the water and breaking through the surface, but a cramp decided to grasp me by my muscles, rendering me immobile.

I became a lump of breathing meat under the bright blue pool water.

The only thing I saw before I sank to the bottom was a glimpse of red and sparkly heels as they retreated, the sound of them hauntingly ringing in my brain.

My chest burned as my lungs fought for air, and for a second there, I thought this was it.

What a pathetic way of dying. What a lot of things I am going to miss in life.

I opened my mouth and tried to resurface, only to fail miserably. A firm arm snaked around my chest and pulled me up. We broke through the surface in what fe