Chapter 110. In My Arms

Ryan’s POV

That stench in that mist took me back straight to the battlefield.

Not that it needed anything for me to revisit that scene, over and over in my head, a million times, carefully visualizing the chronology of the event. Thinking, wondering and lamenting if there was anything that I could have done better that could have averted that massacre.

It still made my breath heavy when I remembered her last breaths that she heaved on these arms.

“Ryan, is everything alright?”

Sherry’s touch made me realize that she was gone as I stared at those empty hands.

“The boat will not go any further Alpha. It might hit those rocks and crumble. We need to swim the rest of the distance to the shore.”

“Sherry, get on my back...” but before I could finish, she had already stripped and jumped into the ocean.

“Gosh! This water is so cold. You should have warned me before I jumped to swim.”

She was so unlike my Sherizad, always getting on my ne