Chapter 13:
It didn’t take long for the salt water to waterlog Helena’s body. Combined with the fact she swallowed too much of it while she struggled to swim made her nauseated and tired. The headache refused to leave her, and with each stroke in the gentle waves of the Mediterranean Sea, her body chills grew worse.
In the dark, she could no longer make out the shore. Doyle and the others, if they did as they were told, should be safe on shore by now. That left only Helena and Rosa to fall victim to the Germans… if they didn’t make it.
Even in the warm water, she could feel her muscles beginning to cramp up, and her teeth started to chatter, a sure sign she was losing too much body heat. All the running and exercise she had done for conditioning while in the land of immortals had brough
