Manuel turned around to leave.
"Manuel!" Martina screamed. She didn't expect it would end up like this, but Manuel just had it effortlessly, which had broken her.
"Take care!" Manuel said instead of stopping his steps. It was the last sympathy he had for her.
Martina just watched him jump off the ship, suffering from the agony of being abandoned.
Tears blurred her eyes. She couldn't understand why Manuel would do that to her. Couldn't he feel her love for him?
She went up to the side of the ship step by step. She had never thought of living alone. Just standing on the deck, she watched him swimming hard towards the shore.
"It's useless! Manuel, you won't be able to save Susan." She thought to herself.
She smiled complacently. At least, she would have killed Susan even if she died and lost everything in the end.
Since now there was no reason to keep her alive anymore, she would wait for Susan in the afterlife, and perhaps Manuel would come with Susan too.
Thinking of this, Martina climbed up to the guardrails. She fixed her eyes on the man in the sea and kept laughing wildly. Anyway, she had gained a lot even if she died. It was worth it.
There was a splash, with a shape falling into the sea abruptly.
Manuel, who was swimming towards the shore, turned around to glance at the ship. He saw splashes on the sea but it was covered by the sea waves the next second as if it had never existed.
"Someone overboard! Someone overboard!" there came some screams from the ship. All people on board were on the run. So, they were numb to the life and death of other people. A few of them talked about it, then they fell into silence again.
Manuel swallowed a little. But he went on to swim fast towards the shore. He had imagined Martina would kill herself. But it wasn't his responsibility. It was her choice. He'd given her quite many opportunities to live, and he'd done his best.
Manuel swam back to the shore as fast as he could and made it to the warehouse.
He pushed the gate open and found Susan curling herself up there on the floor. She was frightened and her mind was wandering. She had earplugs in her ears and couldn't hear a sound. Nor could she feel anyone there.
Manuel didn't feel relieved until he saw her. He even imagined he was going to find a dead body. But Surprisingly, she was still alive, though she had been scared to death.
So, Manuel's feelings were changing little by little.
Did he misunderstand Martina? Did he think too bad of her for she did not kill Susan?
Suddenly, he felt like crying and recalled Martina's desperate face when she jumped off the ship.
Manuel managed his emotions and went over to Susan step by step.
He squatted down. But Susan trembled abruptly when he just touched her.
"Mm-mm..." Susan wanted to say something.
Manuel was about to pull out the cloth from her mouth, but he was stunned the next second-he saw Susan squatting on the floor with a time bomb on her ankle.
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