999 Tries Still Not His Girl novel Chapter 7

The floodwaters surged faster and fiercer.

Olivia was helping a crying child to the shore when Emily suddenly stepped forward. “Come on, Olivia, you’ve always been pampered–why don’t you go back? Let me take the kid.”

She reached out to grab the child, but the little one only cried harder.

Smack!

Olivia slapped Emily’s face. “Emily, this isn’t the time for games

lives are at stake!”

Emily covered her face, her eyes burning with resentment.

After Olivia got the child safely ashore and turned to rescue others, she suddenly felt a strong shove from behind.

“Ah!”

She plunged into the rushing

“Olivia! Emily!”

Jack’s voice came from

a

But the flood was too

strong;

the

wer

swept away more than ten feet in

instant.

“Captain! The two women are being swept downstream!”

Jack rushed over just in time to see their figures bobbing in the flood.

Emily cried out, “Jack! Help me!”

Olivia, however, was already choking on water, pale and silent.

A lightning bolt flashed, illuminating Jack’s determined face. Without hesitation, he dove toward Emily.

At the very last moment before being swallowed by the flood, Olivia caught sight of his choice.

She suddenly felt utterly exhausted.

Let it be.

She released her grip on the drifting log and let the raging waters carry her away.

Olivia slowly came to as someone wiped her face with a warm towel.

“Captain Rivers, you haven’t slept in two days. I’ll stay with Olivia.”

“No need,” came Jack’s hoarse reply.

Before the nurse could insist, someone burst in. “Captain! Miss Ross has a fever again. She’s been calling your name nonstop!”

Jack hesitated, then stood up. “Take good care of her.”

The soldier quickly smiled, reading her mind. “Don’t misunderstand. Captain Rivers saved Miss Ross first, but he came right back and rescued you too. He’s been taking care of you ever since. He just went to check on her a moment ago. If you want to see him, I’ll call him for you.”

The soldier blinked. “Yeah, thanks to your help. You moved the most people during the flood. The whole unit’s impressed.”

She hesitated, reluctant. “But… are you really going to finish your retraining and head home soon?”

“Yes, I have to leave,” Olivia whispered.

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