Ryan's POV- In my arms

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 realise 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 nerves, always getting herself in trouble. But I someho