Love Coming From The Least Expected novel Chapter 263

I turned around to see if there was anyone else on the raft. Lyle and Crystal were there, but they weren’t looking good. Lyle’s wound was deep, and I could even see the bones jutting out from his skin.

I stared up into the sky silently, praying for the sun to set sooner, or else Christopher’s wound would get infected because of the heat.

My prayer seemed to work because dusk eventually fell. I tried to see if there was anything around us, but all I could see was the deep, dark sea. Since we had no GPS, we couldn’t go anywhere even if we wanted to. We were truly lost and stranded on the sea

A long, long time later, I was starting to get parched. Christopher’s lips were cracking from the lack of water too, so I tried to get some water from the sea. No good. It’s salty. This’ll kill us. Christopher can’t drink this. The gravity of our situation made my heart sink.

Stars started twinkling as night finally graced us. Thanks to them, we saw an island that was standing right before us. The sight of the island ignited the flames of hope within us, and we quickly rowed ourselves there in excitement.

I helped Christopher up to the sandy land of the island. There was somebody talking in the distance, and we thought it was a boat coming into the pier. Thinking it was salvation, we quickly went in the source of the sound, but much to our disappointment, they were also survivors just like us. When we found them, they were huddled together in the basin.

The stragglers seemed to be hunting for food on the island. When they saw us, they quickly huddled closer around a big fish they caught. But when they realized our group was wounded and weak, they let their guard down. “Get out. This is our territory,” they barked.

I placed Christopher against the trunk of a big tree and tore a piece of cloth down from his shirt to cover up his wound before bandaging it. I didn’t know if it would work, but this was better than nothing.