Alina’s POVMaybe I was foolish for jumping off.I had thought, naively, stubbornly, that I could control the outcome. That testing him would mean something. That if I pushed him hard enough, if I dangled my life right at the edge of danger, I’d force him to show me that I wasn’t just… replaceable.But the second the icy water swallowed me whole, the truth hit harder than the fall.I wanted to bounce back to the surface, to break free, to gasp, to prove my point, but instead, I was sinking. Fast.Cold needles stabbed into my skin, the weight of the water pulling me down like unseen hands gripping my ankles. My lungs screamed, my arms flailed, and the world around me blurred into chaotic shadows and muted roars. Panic clawed at my chest, wild and consuming, like fire set loose in a locked room.I kicked hard, thrashing upward, but something tugged at my foot, thick, unyielding. My toes scraped against something rough, something like a tangle of vines or debris beneath the surface, wrapp
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