Chapter 309

[Atlas]

My heart seizes as I feel a sudden stab of pain. I can't see straight, my world spins as my heart skips a beat and for a moment I feel like I'm dying.

"Cordelia will be fine," I take a deep breath with my hands over my head as I lean against a wall. This isn't the first panic attack I've ever had, but it has been a very long time.

The first time was when my parents died. It happened again the day I learned Angelica was "dead."

"She isn't dead," I swear to myself. I won't let her be dead. "I'd know if she were dead."

And I believe that. My heart would stop beating as soon as hers did because she is my heart—she and Jasper and that new little angel growing within her.

The Captain got straight to work. It isn't enough to just turn a key and release the controls to change course, there are other elements to moving a boat like this, especially at the rapid rate we want to move her in. Things could go wrong, engines could fail.

Waiting for the first mate to arrive so that