The Wedding Where The Bride Was Swapped While I Was Underwater Chapter 06

Ethan collapsed beside me, all strength gone from his body.

“She’s not dead,” he muttered.

“She’s only angry with me.”

Adrian tore at the cage with his bare hands, searching it like a madman.

The tank still hung securely from its bracket.

He ripped it free and twisted the valve open.

It still held plenty of air, and the outlet was intact.

There appeared to be nothing wrong with it.

Adrian stared at the valve.

“It wasn’t leaking?

“The report over the radio was supposed to be a line I gave you to scare her. If it was only an act, why did she stop breathing?

“Where’s the regulator?

“And why was the door open?”

He seized one of the guards by the collar.

“She won’t even step into a swimming pool. The sight of water makes her cry. How could she unlock the cage and swim away?”

The guard trembled too violently to answer.

“Speak!”

Adrian kicked him to the ground.

“I ordered you to keep her in sight every second. What were you doing? Did the current carry her to the rocks, or did she get out herself? Answer me!”

The entire security team dropped to their knees.

The ocean wind swept over them, but no one spoke.

Adrian’s gaze moved from one terrified face to the next.

“I don’t know exactly what happened to her by the end of today, every one of you will pay

“Nina is dead. I have nothing left to lose, and I will destroy anyone who had a hand in it.”

The guard kneeling at the far end began to shake even harder.

Sweat covered his face, and his eyes kept darting toward Vivian.

Adrian noticed.

He charged over and kicked the man in the shoulder.

“Did you do this?”

“No, Mr. Prescott! No!”

At the thought of his family, the guard finally broke. He bent forward, pleading desperately.

“It wasn’t me. I swear it wasn’t!”

Adrian crouched and grabbed him by the hair.

“Then tell me how she died.”

The man’s answer came in broken fragments.

“The tank didn’t leak. The equipment was working. Ms. Bennett did it herself…”

“Did what?”

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“She pulled out her own regulator.”

Silence fell.

Adrian went rigid and released the guard.

“What did you say?”

The guard squeezed his eyes shut.

“Not long after we lowered her, Ms. Bennett took the regulator out of her mouth herself.”

“You’re lying!”

Adrian snatched a metal rod from the sand and raised it over the man’s head.

“you saw her do it, why didn’t you say something? Why didn’t you stop her?

“You wanted her dead!”

A hand caught the rod before it fell.

Ethan had come up behind him. His face was completely blank.

“Let go, Ethan! I’ll kill him!“.

Tears streamed down Adrian’s face.

“Nina would never take her own life. She was terrified of pain.”

Ethan wrenched the rod away.

“Shut up and think.”

He crouched in front of the guard and looked directly into his eyes.

“Why did she remove the regulator?”

The guard looked up in terror.

“My sister raised hell over the smallest injustice. She would never suddenly give up on her life, and she could not have opened that cage by herself.

“What did you do to her underwater?

“Or did someone else arrange all of this?”