The CEO Beautiful Regret
The pressure of the trapped water inside the pipe slammed against the loosened iron frame, forcing the gate to jerk upward six inches with a loud, rusty shriek.
The current caught me.
The massive rush of water shot me through the gap like a stone from a slingshot. My shoulders scraped the iron bars, tearing through my shirt, and then I was out, tumbling into the shallow mud of the lower valley ditch.
I rolled onto my back, coughing up gallons of freezing, foul water.
"Vivienne!" Clara threw her body over my chest, her wet face burying into my neck.
"Up! Now!" Martha roared, grabbing my arm and hauling me out of the ditch.