Since You Chose Your 'Bro' I Married Your Brother novel Chapter 66

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The helicopter plunged ten meters.

The rotor wash whipped my hair back.

Rancid mud splattered down, filling my mouth and eyes with the taste of rotting plants.

I squeezed my eyes shut, my body shaking violently.

I’d been stable on the surface before, but now I couldn’t keep my balance. One side of my body kept sinking.

It was evening now. Zander had them turn on the floodlights.

The glare burned my eyes.

[Whoa, she’s shaking like crazy!]

[Is she crying? No way.]

[Zander’s brutal. Hitting her right where it hurts.]

[She’s halfway under. Ten more seconds and she’s buried.]

I desperately clutched at plants nearby to steady myself.

They were all waiting for me to beg. To squeeze the last bit of value out of me.

Clover cooed with false sympathy.

“Lyra, is money really that important? I don’t care about your money, but you need to show Zander you’re sorry.”

The helicopter dropped another half meter,

The rotor blast felt like invisible hands shoving my shoulders down into the muck,

The grass I’d been holding snapped. I lurched sideways, sinking fast.

Mud surged to my chest. Icy water filled with dead leaves poured down my collar. Every breath felt suffocating.

Zander’s laughter crackled through the speaker, cutting through the wind.

“Lyra, wasn’t cleanliness your thing? Keep sinking and mud’s gonna fill your mouth. Let’s see you act high and mighty then!”

Clover chimed in, dripping with fake pity.

“Lyra, look how pathetic you are right now.”

“Zander said if you transfer the winery money to my account and admit in front of everyone on the dark web that you were wrong-that you were petty-”

“He’ll pull you out right away. And I won’t press charges for you sabotaging my files and adding all those errors.”

Zander’s voice exploded.

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“So that’s it, Lyra!”

“I thought you were just jealous. Turns out you were sabotaging her!”

“Do you have any idea how many people’s livelihoods depend on Clover’s decisions?”

Pinning crimes on me I didn’t commit?

I struggled to lift my head, ready to argue back-only to have a bucket of what looked like blood dumped over me from above.

“Splash-”

Red liquid splashed across my exposed neck, mixing instantly with the cold mud. The stench hit my nose like a punch.

The dark web chat exploded.

Even the laughter from the helicopter sounded disturbingly gleeful.

“Zander, that’s genius! The blood smell’s gonna attract all kinds of nasty stuff!”

The co-pilot shoved his phone against the window, zooming in on my blood-soaked figure.

“Lyra, scared yet? Beg Zander now, or what comes next won’t just be leeches!”

I wiped blood and mud off my face. The slick texture triggered a visceral wave of disgust from my germaphobia.

But more than that-bone-deep cold.

Zander would really go this far for Clover.

I lay in the swamp, feeling leeches crawling all over me.

Their sucking sounds were faint, but the rapid blood loss left me growing colder.

I struggled to shake them off, but it only made me sink deeper.

Despair crept in. No tears. Just emptiness.

More and more people noticed my condition.

[She’s gonna die, right?]

[Stop messing around. This is turning into a murder scene.]

The helicopter crew didn’t want a death on their hands either.

“Zander, Lyra looks like she’s not gonna make it.”

Zander watched me stop struggling, his voice devoid of emotion.

“She won’t die. Cockroaches always survive.”

“If she wasn’t vain and greedy, she wouldn’t be here. It’s just a little lesson.”

The comments urged me to beg.

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But I did nothing wrong. Why should I beg?

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I forced myself to remember survival tricks, shook off most of the leeches.

Slowly, I peeled off my clothes and crawled to a cleaner patch of mud to wash the blood off my body.

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