It feels like an eternity goes by as I wait there with my chest burning for him to come up.
“Oh thank God!” I whisper when I see his human head emerge from the water. But my spirits get kicked back down when Aylwin’s human head emerges as well.
Ethan’s protective eyes search me out and then lock onto me when he sees me standing on the balcony in front of his burning house. He starts swimming in a full sprint toward me as Aylwin follows close behind.
I run down to the water to meet him, but he’s shaking his head in a panic as he runs up onto the shore, waving me away. “No! Run, Chloe! Run!”
He’s naked in the waist-deep water and there are long claw marks along his chest that are seeping out blood. I don’t want to leave him. If he dies then I want to die too. I don’t want to be on this p
