Kill Switch by Penelope Douglas

Please.
I pushed at the door.
Please. Please, Please.
And then I pushed…
And it floated open like magic.
I went dizzy for a moment, wondering if it really just did
that.
Oh, fucking yes. Thank GGod.
I dove out into the river, pulling Winter and reaching
inside and grabbing Will.
He kicked his legs, swimming out and fighting for the
surface, and I followed, taking Winter’s hand off my belt but
not letting go as we swam.
We all popped up to the surface, hitting the air and
coughing, sputtering, and gasping for breath. The cold water
stabbed like needles in my skin, but I couldn’t feel my wound
at least. One pain at a time.
We needed to get out of this water. I looked around for
Anderson and his partner, but there was no one. Nothing else
on the surface of the river. He was under.
He was gone.
GGood fucking riddance.
“Can you swim?” I asked Winter. She’d been in the pool
with Will, but it wasn’t deep.
“Yeah,” she choked out. “I’ll follow you.”
I turned on my non-injured side and did the side-stroke
toward the river bank, watching her behind me to make sure
she could follow my sound and movement in the water.
Will swam next to me, the current pulling us, but we made
good strides, and I started to feel the ground under me. My
fucking body was done.
We reached the river floor, crawling out of the water and
onto the bank, breathing hard and relief washing over me as I