His father looked at me with a pained expression, nodding heavily. “Go get her to seawater, right now!”
Cyrus dashed out with my broken body in his arms.
The pack had a research lab connected to the ocean, but it was already too late. I could no longer be saved.
“Don’t scare me, Marina… Why are you becoming so light…?” Cyrus‘ voice was trembling, as if he were on the verge of a
breakdown. “You still haven’t told me the truth, so don’t leave!”
I couldn’t hear anything beyond that, my consciousness fading into nothingness.
Cyrus placed me into the research lab’s water tank, watching me float on the water. My death was already inevitable, so even if I was placed into seawater, it only slowed down the speed of me dissolving into foam.
I floated there, my soul drifting out of my body.
I knew that in a few days, my soul would disappear, too.
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Hovering above, I looked down at Cyrus screaming in anguish in front of the water tank.
He was the proud Alpha King, yet now he could do nothing about my death.
It took Cyrus a long time to recover from the overwhelming pain.
“Mom, Dad, where did the merfolk take you? Didn’t they kidnap you? Were you hurt?”
Cyrus‘ mother had always loved me like her own daughter, so she couldn’t stop crying as she watched my pitiful end.
She raised her hand and slapped Cyrus‘ face as hard as she could.
“So you tortured Marina like this without even knowing the truth? Your father and I have never taught you to be like this!
“The merfolk didn’t hurt us! In fact, they’re the saviors of our pack! Marina even saved you, too!”
