"From now on, we'll always live under the sea and never set foot on this damn land again."
He promised softly.
Selene's heart had long been screaming to the point of tearing wide open.
"No! Who wants to live underwater! I can't swim, and I have to soak in seawater every day? And keep company with fish and shrimp? And listen to you recite Sea-kin rules? No, no, absolutely not!"
She was already imagining herself turning into a salted fish in her mind.
But in reality, she didn't even have the strength to argue.
Pain washed over her like waves, utterly drowning her.
She could only weakly rest her head in Zane's embrace.
To stop herself from screaming out loud, she bit her lower lip hard.
Her lips had long been bitten pale, even oozing tiny drops of blood.
This image fell into Cale's eyes, yet seemed to him to be a silent acquiescence to some promise.
Acquiescence to following Zane, to leaving the land, to abandoning everything, even...
To abandoning him.
