Crash!A huge, freezing wall of black Atlantic water smashed into the side of our yellow rubber raft, slamming me face-first into the rusty iron base of the boarding ladder hooked to the container ship. The sharp steel edge tore into my shoulder, slicing through my soaked shirt and leaving a burning, stinging pain across my collarbone.“Sierra! Catch the rung! Grab it now!” Marcus was yelling, his voice nearly swallowed by the wind’s roar. His massive, grease-stained hand clamped tight around my right forearm—holding me steady while the mad swell nearly ripped me off my feet. The raft heaved and twisted underneath us. “I can’t hold the tube to a nuclear hull! The displacement’s sucking us under the props!”“I have the baby!” I coughed out, voice cracking from the salt. I squeezed Leo tighter against my neck and managed to hook my right arm around the third rung just as my left leg hung limp and numb into the foam. Through the thick, soaked wool blanket, Leo’s chest unit glowed a stead
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