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Lia tumbles down the cliff like a leaf. Light, tiny, and so fucking fragile.
I reach out a hand, but all I grab is air.
Panic like I’ve never felt in my life snaps my shoulder blades together and freezes me in place.
Fuck no.
This isn’t how it’s going to end.
I skid down the side of the cliff, sliding over the dirt until I nearly hit the water. My bicep wound screams in pain and my tendons ripple with every movement.
Pulling out my phone, I hit the flashlight icon until a beam of light spills in front of me, illuminating the violent waves hitting the rocks.
The thought of Lia being stuck out there, ripped apart by the angry water, tightens my body and assaults my nerves.
I make out a small figure clinging to a rock while it floats in the water, but it doesn’t drift away.
My men’s voices grow near, and Kolya’s large build is the first to appear as he makes his way down the side of the cliff.
“Get ropes!” I bark, then place my phone on a small rock, directing the flashlight forward before I dive straight into the freezing water.
Shock ripples through my body and my wound, the wound she caused in her attempt to escape me, but I ignore all the discomfort as I swim against the harsh current.
The crashing waves are stubbornly trying to whisk Lia away, to slam her delicate body against the merciless rocks and suck out her life essence.
When I reach her, I find out why the water hasn’t succeeded in taking her. I thought she was looped around one rock, but it turns out, she’s stuck between two. One of them isn’t visible but is imprisoning her lower half.
I grab her cold, wet wrist and stop breathing while I wait for her pulse.
One fraction of a second passes.
Two…
Three…
A tiny beat thumps beneath my frozen finger and I finally inhale in a large breath of air.
I use one rock as an anchor as I pull Lia from between the other two. The moment she’s loose, I loop an arm around her waist and hold her freezing body close to mine.
Dark strands of her hair cover her face and I push them back. Even under the faint glow of the flashlight, I can see that she’s pale and her lips are blue, darkening a shade with every second.
She needs medical help and she needs it now.
“Boss!” Kolya calls from the shore.
I stare up to find him, Yan, Boris, and a few of my men standing at the edge of the cliff. My senior guard throws the rope, but it’s whipped away by the water.
He does it again, and I grasp it at the last second and loop it around Lia’s middle. I pause when my fingers meet the torn material of her dress, then I carefully feel around.
My hand slows when I find a gash at her lower abdomen. A deep as fuck gash that swallows my finger.
I quickly remove my hand while keeping her immobile. This is a lot more fucking serious than I thought if she’s also injured. This complication could be fatal in her freezing state.
“Pull us out!” I shout over the current.
Kolya and Yan yank the rope while the other men stand as a second line of enforcement.
I place Lia in front of me to keep from touching her wound, one of my arms wrapped around her chest and the other holding onto the rope.
