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Chapter 23

I let go of my log—ta-ta, old friend!—and lifted my hands up from the water. I grabbed. I grasped. I gasped. I clung on tenaciously to the branch, fighting to regain my breath as the water threatened to pull me back into its frigid embrace.

“Fuck you, water!” I hollered into the night. “I…am…Fierce!”

Overdramatic, sure, but that comes with the hero territory as well. Big ego, big drama. Big dick as well, but that’s neither here nor there. Though said dick was, thankfully, steadily rising above the manic water as I yanked and pulled my way up the branch, struggling toward hopeful safety

Minutes rolled by, my arms rife with throbbing pain as I fought for my very life. Then…“Thank God.” In other words, I was finally safe, draped over the rock, my back flush against the sturdy tree as water rushed around us, crashing against the miniature island beneath me.