“Three, two, one… jump!” Ryan doesn’t hesitate when they are about to rush forward toward them. He grabs Jamie’s hand and jumps into the sea below.
Those men in black didn’t expect them to jump in and hesitate before jumping in to look for them.
It was at this moment!
“Boss, someone placed a bomb here!” There is a flurry of activities on the boat as the man completes his sentence.
Boom, boom, boom…
Three loud explosions ring out from the bow, midship and stern. In an instant, the boat was destroyed. The sea is littered with patches of fire.
The men who were still on the boat have nowhere to escape.
Jamie struggles to stay afloat and keep her head above the water. She heard the explosions when her head was underwater and when she came up, the boat was totally gone.
It… it exploded?!
Jamie couldn’t believe that the boat just exploded. Did those on the helicopter do it?
It became clearer when she thinks of it that way.
She feels that something isn’t right and wants to think about it but the bone-chilling cold seawater engulfed her and she is cold and numb. She is also struggling to prevent the seawater from going into her nose and mouth. She continues to struggle to keep her head out of the water.
At this moment, she is very thankful to Dan who forced her to learn to swim. Otherwise, she would have drowned now.
Hang on, where’s Ryan?
Jamie endures the icy cold water and looks around. Finally, she sees a head bobbing in the water.
“Ry… Ryan…” Jamie shouted weakly. She wants to swim over but the wind is strong and the waves are churning.
As she prepares to swim over, a wave comes crashing into her face and she was engulfed in water. She struggles for several seconds before breaking the surface and she takes big breaths to recover herself.
When she looks in the same direction, she can no longer see Ryan.
Initially, she felt consoled when she saw Ryan but now she starts to panic. The waves cover her head relentlessly and she feels like she is being pushed farther and farther away. She can only tilt her head backward to ensure she continues breathing and not drown.
But her limbs are numb, cold, and stiff. She cannot move them anymore as if her limbs have frozen up. She is unable to move them anymore.
Is she going to die here today?
Jamie is hopeless and closes her eyes. Even when the seawater gets to her mouth and nose, she does not have an ounce of energy to swim. She couldn’t even feel the icy cold water.
She is numb.
“Jamie!”
She doesn’t know if she is hallucinating as she thinks that she just heard Dan’s voice. But she doesn’t have any energy to confirm. Her final consciousness is being drowned by the sea. She slowly closes her eyes.
Her entire body slips into the water like being swallowed by death.
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