The pressure change was sudden and violent. One moment they were being crushed by the weight of the Palisades; the next, they were being spat out into the open water of the cove.Ivy broke the surface, gasping for air, her vision blurry with salt and tears. The rain was still falling, a cold shroud over the black water. She felt the heavy tug of her clothes, the weight of the ruby necklace still tight around her throat—a permanent brand even in the middle of the ocean."Dante!" she choked out, her voice barely a whisper against the waves.A few yards away, a dark shape bobbed in the water. Dante emerged, his hair plastered to his forehead, his face pale and ghostly in the moonlight. He swam toward her with a ragged, exhausted stroke, his hand finding her shoulder and pulling her toward a flat shelf of rock near the cave entrance.They dragged themselves onto the stone, collapsing side-by-side, their chests heaving, their bodies shivering with a deep, bone-deep cold.Above them, on the
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