The Wrong Woman

Chapter 176

Suzanne found herself teetering on the brink of losing

consciousness. It was as if she had been swallowed by an endless abyss of despair and fear. She trembled in the water, unable to catch a single breath.

In that fleeting moment, death loomed close, and Nathan’s image flashed through her mind. Confronted with the specter of death, he was the sole anchor she clung to desperately.

In a startling twist of events, Sally abruptly released her grip, instead simulating a struggle as if she were drowning, her cries for help piercing the air. “Help!”

Suzanne faintly heard Sally’s desperate pleas, followed by the sound of two splashes.

Her consciousness teetered on the edge as fear filled her, yet she persisted in her struggle, bobbing up and down in the water.

As she emerged from the water’s surface, her hazy eyes caught a glimpse of Nathan’s figure, carrying Sally toward the shore..

Was it an illusion? Why was Nathan here? Did he just save Sally?

The unsettling sensation of dread assured Suzanne that this was no dream. Nathan had returned, opting to rescue the drowning Sally over

swim. In that instant,

body descended, suffocating in the chilling embrace of

water’s surface abruptly. She was lifted upward by a pair of large hands. In the haze

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voice anxiously shouting, “Hold

there!”

too heavy to bear, too painful to endure, and she was uncertain how to

of the abyss, Suzanne felt weightless as she

and she felt her soul returning to her body. As her eyes snapped open,

saw Nathan’s solemn eyes, accompanied by Oliver by

was laced with concern as he

ever warm, contrasted with Suzanne’s icy fingertips. She’ withdrew her hand slowly,

he observed Suzanne’s retreat distant gaze. A pang of pain tugged

notice Suzanne submerged beneath the

a fear that prevented her from

Sally in his arms, Suzanne suddenly struggled to

moment, Oliver had already swum toward Suzanne, driven by the urgency of saving lives. Nathan couldn’t leave Sally, who couldn’t