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It seems every time I get close to believing that he can be civil and a decent human being, some new evidence emerges of his wrongdoings. His villainy knows no bounds, and I’d never forgive him for what he did to Nina and Cathal. I swim further into the open water, letting it lap against me in an effort to soothe my rage.
Nina’s love for Cathal was absolute and my husband’s selfish and thoughtless actions shattered that. He is the reason that Cathal ditched her all of a sudden, out of the blue.
How could I ever forgive Isiah for destroying Nina’s chance at happiness?
My rage slowly diminishes with each stroke I take as I swim further into the vast ocean, affording me a newfound clarity.
I can’t remain married to Isiah—not after what he’s done to Nina. I have to find a way out, even if it means leaving everything familiar behind me. There must be a way for me to escape this cruel fate and find solace away from Isiah.
I whirl around to face the distant shore, filled with apprehension, when I realize how far away I truly am. But then, something in the corner of my eye makes me pause.
A figure swimming toward me with great speed.
Isiah.
The fury on his handsome face is unmistakable when he finally reaches me. “Bella! Are you fucking insane?”
I glare at him. “Fuck off, Isiah. I’m trying to get away from you,” I snarl back.
He shakes his head. “You shouldn’t be swimming this far out. There are sharks!”
I scowl at him, feeling a heat rise through my body as anger courses through my veins. How dare he try to tell me what to do? I’d been so peaceful and content in my isolation, but his intrusion has ruined it.
I know it’s stupid to be this far out in the ocean—the Maldives have the highest concentration of sharks, after all. But the thought of his smug face if I agree makes me feel sick, so I shake my head.
“I know what I’m doing! And you don’t get to tell me what to do!”
The rage that crosses his features scares me more than any shark could as he powers the last ten yards to me, grabbing my hip. “There’s a fucking tiger shark lurking no more than twenty yards behind you. Tell me you know what you’re doing again, and I’ll just leave him to eat you.”
I freeze, wondering if he’s telling the truth. Turning to glance behind, I notice the fin poking above the water, swimming back and forth, clearly not aware of our presence...yet. “I’m still so angry at you,” I say, moving my gaze back to my husband. The man who ruined Nina’s chance at happiness.
“Well, be angry at me once we’re on land and away from a blood hungry shark.” He nods toward the shore.
I agree, reluctantly, and begin to swim in that direction.
Isiah remains behind me, covering me from behind. Until he suddenly pulls me to a stop, pulling my body close to his. “Stay very still.”
I freeze, glancing around in search of the threat. And that’s when I see another fin heading right toward us. “Shit.”
Isiah pulls me behind him and blocks me with his body. Heat coils through me that this man would put himself in harm’s way to save me. He swam out here, aware of the sharks. “Stay still.”
“I don’t think I could even move if I had to.”
“Ssh,” he says.
And then when I’m sure we’re going to die from a shark attack, he dives under the water, leaving me in the path of the fucking thing.
This it is.
I’m going to die and my good-for-nothing husband has ditched me.
I scream, my muscles unwilling to move as my brain screams to swim away.
Suddenly, the shark starts thrashing around. My brow furrows as I duck under the water to see Isiah squaring up to it as he punches it repeatedly in the nose.
What sane person does that?
I scramble back to the surface expecting the crystal blue sea to be tinged blood red with Isiah’s blood, but instead I watch as the fin of the shark turns in the opposite direction as the shark swims away.
