Ava's POVThe ocean at night was nothing like it looked from the safety of a ship.Out here, it was a monster... cold, bottomless, and hungry.The second my body hit the water, freezing darkness swallowed me whole.The impact knocked the air from my lungs, and icy seawater surged around me like chains wrapping tightly around my limbs.My wolf cried out instantly inside me as the brutal cold pierced through skin, muscle, and bone.I nearly kicked upward on instinct, but fear stopped me.What if Laura was still watching?What if she realized I hadn’t drowned yet?She’d send someone after me, and this time, they wouldn’t fail.So I forced myself deeper instead.My lungs burned violently as I swam away from the ship beneath the surface, blindly pushing forward through freezing black water.My wolf growled weakly.That’s the wrong direction, Ava.“I can’t tell,” I thought desperately.Everything looked the same.Darkness above, darkness below.The ocean swallowed all sense of direction unt
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