Hiding Behind Her Superficiality novel Chapter 707

Slevin’s head snapped up as though he noticed Nyla’s behavior was off. He immediately spotted her scrambling toward the sea.

“What are you doing, Nyla?”

Despite shouting after her, his words did not make her stop at all. Her feet merely faltered for one brief second before she continued on.

“Nyla!”

Finally, she stopped running.

She turned around to shoot him a bleak smile as her dress danced in the wind. She looked as delicate and flimsy as a thin piece of paper.

“Brother… No. Slevin Damazio, you have been the only person in my life. Now that you don’t want me, what point is there in living?” she said.

There was a conflicted look in his eyes. He was at a loss for words.

“Thank you for being so nice to me throughout the years. I don’t need it anymore, though.”

She then darted to the ocean in a frenzied sprint. When he saw that the rising tide and crashing waves were about to swallow her whole, his face twisted in shock.

He ran as fast as he could to try to drag her out of the ocean, but the fierce waves eventually pushed him back to the shore.

“Stop, Nyla! If you keep going, you’ll die!”

Nyla did not stop and continued to walk forward. By now, the water level was as high as her knees.

“You don’t need to save me. Go back,” she responded. Still, her strides shortened noticeably, and she walked slower.

Perhaps she still felt the urge to live because she soon stopped and turned around to look at him. He was so close to her, yet they were separated by rolling waves.

A smug smile spread across her lips.

“I told you. You came to save me because you can’t bear to see me die, right?”

“Come back already! The tide is rising!” he roared back at her.

It did not seem like that was a satisfactory reply for her, however. She shook her head and put on a look of fragility.

“You don’t want me anymore…”

He clenched his jaw and eventually spat out, “When did you hear me say that? As long as you’re willing, you will forever be my sister!”

That made her freeze.

Hope shone on her face once more, and she tried to get back to shore. However, no matter how hard she tried, she would always be pushed back by the waves.

It was only then that she realized she had gotten herself stuck between a rock and a hard place. The smug smile on her face instantly vanished, replaced by panic.

“Help me, Slevin! I can’t get back!”

She reached out to grab something to pull herself back to the shore, but there was nothing within reach.

Slevin unsteadily stumbled over to her.

When Elspeth saw that the two of them were about to be dragged further into the ocean by the waves, she shouted in helplessness, “Slevin, you can still turn back. Come back or you’ll be dragged out by the waves as well!”

“Save me, Slevin! Help! I don’t want to die! I don’t want to be dragged out into the waters!” Nyla shrieked.