"We spent eight years fighting through bullets and blood together. How could she ever leave me?"
"Besides, the score between us still hasn't been settled. I will never let her leave."
The moment he finished speaking, clubs began raining down on Nora like a storm, each blow carrying a sickening, bone-deep pain.
After a while, the beating finally stopped.
Nora had barely had a chance to draw a breath when the sack was suddenly hoisted high into the air—and thrown into the sea.
Freezing seawater flooded into the sack. Caught completely off guard, Nora inhaled a mouthful of it straight into her lungs, and the salt-bitter agony choked off every cry she tried to make.
Just as she was on the verge of suffocating, the sack was yanked back up—only to be hurled into the water again.
And again
