If You Dare (Diamond Devils, #1)

by Harmony West

Through the spinning water, I can just make out the swim trunks on Wes Novak as he attempts to drown me. This is it. This is when he really kills me. He lets me break the water’s surface to gulp down a breath only to shove me under again. Over and over. My lungs are burning, chest caving in on itself. This is how Chloe must’ve felt in her final moments. Floating in the water, unable to move. Unable to save herself. They say drowning is painless, but nothing has hurt this much since they told me Chloe was dead. I claw at Wes’s arms holding me down, kick at his knees. Fighting to survive. Fighting for one more breath, one more chance to make things right. Just as the muscles in my arms and legs start to give out, my chest collides with the hard metal edge of the pool so violently, I heave. The hands that were just drowning me finally release me and I cough up water onto the tile. My entire body aches and convulses as my lungs simultaneously hack up water and try to suck in air. Water sloshes as Wes climbs the ladder. He saunters in front of me, stopping with his feet just inches from my fingers. He waits for me to look up at him. Waits for me to peer at the face of the man who nearly killed me. The man I destroyed.