CHAPTER 88: 88;

Lilac

I let out a loud scream, feeling my throat crack from how loud I was screaming, but it was clearly pointless because no one came to my rescue. Those girls grabbed ms and dragged me over to the drum. With the energy I had left, I fought hard, but at the end, I was overpowered and outnumbered, so it didn’t take long for me to be thrown into the drum.

As the cold water coveted my entire body, it drowned out the scream that I was letting out, filling up my entire lungs and making me struggle hard as I felt myself start to slowly sink in the drum. I couldn’t swim so it was impossible for me to succcedsfully float at the top of the drum. My body felt like it was growing heavier as the seconds went by, and I was aware that I was drinking in water against my will. I couldn’t stop struggling as panic kept filling up my entire body. My nose and lungs were on fire, it felt like they were burning and might burst any time soon. I struggled so hard, I tried to scream, to get a word out, to cry out for help, but no sound came out, I kept struggling in vain, kept licking my hands and legs out, but none of that helped my situation and I still kept sinking deeper and deeper.

Was this really my end? Is this it? Would I really die like this after everything I’ve survived? Without getting a chance to see my sisters? Without getting a chance to tell Sloan goodbye? I’d just die a death like this, then the person responsible won’t even be faulted cause she’ll get away with it. That thought made me extremely mad, at least if I’d be dying like this, I’d like it if her good girl act can be busted with this incident, then I could just imagine Sloan killing her, cause that’s something I could undoubtedly imagine him doing should he hear the news that i had died.

Today, I was supposed to visit him again. We were supposed to do a lot of fun things together again. If I had known all that happened today was gonna take place, when he asked me to move in with him last night, I’d have accepted the offer without thinking twice. I had just been second thoughts cause I also wanna protect him and I knkw that me moving in with him would make the bald headed guy and his team start to give me harder and harder tasks concerning him, and that’s something I didn’t want cause I’m very certain I’d never wanna hurt him. Presently, I’m feeling conflicted and wondering if I should have just agreed to his offer to move in with him last night without thinking twice. Perhaps I should have been selfish for once.

But presently, all I could do was bask in regret, while drown to death.

What a ridiculous death.

I’d have laughed if I could in my present situation.

I let out a gurgle as water flooded my brain, making it seem like the world was starting to spin around me. As the seconds went by, it slowly began to seem like the life was starting to be drained out from me. It felt so painful, like the water was about to tear me apart limb by limb, but there was nothing I could do about it and no where i could run to.

When it felt like I was about to die, a hand shot into the water, grabbing my arm, then I was being pulled out of the water in a firm tug. I let out a sharp gasp, dragging in lungful of breaths as my head weakly fell against a shoulder, my limbs flopping around uselessly. I couldn’t open my eyes, or hear anything. My throat still felt so tight and it felt like water was trapped in my lungs, making me still feel like the world was spinning around me.

When my back met the ground and a pair of hands settled on my chest and began to press down hard over and over again, I kept coughing out water over and over again, and at a point, when it felt like I could breathe again, I managed to blink my eyes open a little cause I was desperate to see who it was that saved me. That’s when my eyes settled on Damien’s face, and he looked furious and worried as he kept pressing down on my stomach and chest. It looked like he was screaming at some people, but I couldn’t hear a thing cause everything felt like it had been muted around me.

I want to call out his name, to tell him that I was fine and to thank him for saving me, but my mouth wouldn’t even more despite me trying to make it move. In the next moment, the world began to dim around me and I felt my eyes start to flutter close while my breathing suddenly cease.

This is the moment that I began to hear a little.

"Lilac!" I heard Damien’s voice call out loudly, but it felt so far away from me.

A hand settled on my chest and pushed down a few more times, but after nothing happened, the hands left my chest, and settled over my cheeks in the next moment, then a pair of lips was settling over mine, blowing air into my lungs over and over again till I was sneezing hard and coughing out water.

When I blinked my eyes open this time, Damien was still regarding me, a worried expression across his face. The first thing that registered within me as I blinked up at him a few times, was that he just kissed me in order to save me.

I didn’t know how to feel about that, but I felt very grateful that he saved me. When I attempted to speak, I ended up coughing out water while he shushed me.

"Shh. Don’t speak yet, okay?" He spoke, his hand caressing my cheek as he continued. "You’re safe now."