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Sixteen
Marigold
My head thumped painfully against the solid surface in front of me with the momentum we’d built up as our section of the hull went down. Agony spiraled out from the point of impact, and then, blackness reigned.
I must have lost awareness because the last memory I had was of me plunging into the glacierlike water with my mate holding onto me for dear life, the sea gulping down our mode of transportation into its churning depths.
When I awoke, it was to freezing air biting into my exposed skin, whipping against my water-logged clothes and causing my teeth to chatter, but the frigid temperature was forgotten the second that I noticed I was flying through the night sky.
Asher still had a firm hold on me, but I was freaking the fuck out as I took in the ocean sailing by below us around the chunk of debris that I observed two scaled talons holding as I damn near did a 360 with my head.
Ash clasped me tight to
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