**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."