Nathan's POV

The cold water was suffocating, and rose around Adina. It was on her shoulders now. Her screams that were once so full of a desperate, furious energy, were now a small, broken plea. "Nathan," she cried, her voice a raw, terrified whisper. "Nathan, please... save me."

I lunged forward but they were too many. More of his men came and they held me down. I struggled, my muscles screaming in protest but it was useless. I could only watch as the water rose, slowly and inexorably, to ...