Chapter 44

ACHILLES. Was this person sent to assassinate me? If so, then how did they get here without alerting anyone? Am I going to die tonight because someone fumbled and now an intruder is in? I have no idea how to defend myself naked, submerged in water, so I push myself to the surface, determined to catch whoever this is and make them pay before they can take a shot at me. I burst through the surface of the water, causing it to splash everywhere. I thought that I would finally come face to face with some big man with a gun pointed at my face or something, but my mouth just falls open when I see who is in the water with me. Claudia. And she’s not facing me either. She’s struggling to stay afloat, her arms and her legs thrashing around as though she’s a madman. The water keeps moving in waves, trying to dunk her back under, and I don’t think she’s able to save herself from this. My confusion made me stay there for a second too late, but I snap back to attention when I hear her trying to