Mark whipped around, his eyes bloodshot.
“No!”
“Amy’s a professional diver! She saved my
life at sea! She’s such a strong swimmer,
there’s no way she drowned in that tiny pond!
But as much as he didn’t want to believe it, I
was gone.
“Drain it! Drain the pond! I want her found! Dead or alive!”
While Mark was frantically draining the pond, Captain Jack had already taken me to the
Dive Team headquarters.
He and his team had been watching, pulling
me out and getting me away unseen.
“Amy, are you sure about this? If you join the
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Ocean Conservation Project, you’ll have to
give up your old life. There’s no turning back.”
I knew my answer. I grabbed the agreement and signed without hesitation.
“I have no family left. My son is gone. It
doesn’t matter whether I have an identity or
not.”
Captain Jack saw my despair, his gaze full of
pity.
“If I’d known that Lewis would do this to you,
I never would have let you marry him.”
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“You were the best diver we had. And he
almost drowned you.”
He hesitated.
Amy, you know… after a near–drowning
experience like that, it’s not really safe for
you to dive anymore.”
I knew that better than anyone. Fifteen years
of diving had taught me that much.
But I didn’t care.
“I have to dive. There’s something I need to
Seeing my resolve, he stopped trying to
dissuade me. He’d been like a father to me
ever since I joined the team at ten years old. He knew me too well.
I’d given up my passion for love. Now that love was gone, replaced by pain, there was nothing to hold me back.
He had connections and got me on a freighter headed overseas the next day.
I took one last look at the city, at everything
that had happened with Mark, and then I let it
all go.
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I disappeared.
Meanwhile, Mark had drained the pond. But I
wasn’t there.
“Mr. Lewis, we haven’t found Mrs. Lewis.”
The news, strangely, filled him with hope. No body meant I might still be alive.
“She’s hiding. I’ll find her.”
