CHAPTER 106

  **GWEN**

  I didn't know how long I was transfixed to a spot in that water after Merit left.I just knew that for a moment I didn't know how to react to her threat and just as I was about to leave the water,I felt something like a shadow pass over the water and became motionless at once.

  I thought Merit was going to do something heinous to me,the water being the least of my problems,but when I saw that shadow,I knew I was going to die for sure.

  Then boom,someone was inside the water,snapping me out of my shock and I recovered,my first instinct being to run.Run to where?I didn't know,merely striving to try my best.

  "It's me,my love,"Ashton said,and I have never felt the level of relief I had at that point which I concealed by slapping at his chest.

  "You startled me."