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Pain tore through me.
Blackness stole my sight.
I sank—
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“It’s okay. You’re okay.”
I hated those words.
I despised those words.
They were lies and false promises, and they’d stolen everything.
“Neri, move away. I need to see how badly he’s injured.” A male voice rumbled in my storm-deafened ears.
A scuffle sounded but then gentle hands landed on my head, fingers feathering around my skull as if searching for something.
I moaned.
The fingers stopped searching. A shadow loomed over me, blotting out the sun dancing behind my closed eyelids.
“Can you hear me? Can you speak? Open your eyes, mate.”
A tap against my cheek. A shake on my shoulder.
Another flash of breath-stealing pain from my ribs, my wrist, my leg.
Darkness feathered over my thoughts again, pushing me down...down...
“It wasn’t a shark,” a soft, sweet voice suddenly whispered—so close to my ear it tickled. “It wasn’t a shark nudging you. It was Sapphire. She’s a dolphin. Her pod brought us to you. They saved you. So rest easy, whoever you are, because you’re safe now and nothing can hurt you.”
My heart fisted.
My throat closed.
Loss crashed over me.
I tried to fight the cloying heaviness.
I did my best to open my eyes and see who spoke so kindly.
I wanted to thank her.
To touch her.
But pain pushed me deep—
Chapter Two
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Aslan
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(Moon in Turkish: Ay)
