Chapter 188
Chapter 188, Episode 026: Accidentally Protected a Weakness (3)
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Their hands and feet felt as if they were filled with lead in the final few kilometers, each stroke forward required unimaginable strength to exert.
They swam for a full five hours.
During these five hours, Nathan Foster and Rowdy Brightwill maintained a certain distance from them, neither lending a helping hand nor offering encouragement. Only when there were two kilometers left, did Nathan Foster row a boat from a nearby island to await them at finish line.
That was the island where they trained frequently, so there was no shortage of regularly used boats.
𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮
I don’t want to move anymore. Becca Reyes weakly floated on the water surface, looking at Flossie Wright who had never stopped at her side, she feebly said, but put her hand on Flossie Wright’s backpack and shamelessly spoke up, "Give me a shove."
Flossie Wright slowly stopped and glanced at her.
However, before she could respond, a cold voice sounded from the side: "No cheating!"
Becca Reyes was startled and instinctively retracted her hand. She then turned her head and saw Rowdy Brightwill’s handsome face, with large droplets of water splattering on his skin, tracing down his cheek, and streaming down. Despite his stern expression, he looked extraordinarily gentle.
Becca Reyes, who was scolded, responded. She dared not blatantly ask Flossie Wright for help again, and paddled honestly at a slow pace, like a turtle.
However, in her heart, she cursed Rowdy Brightwill as a pervert.
In Becca Reyes’s view, both Rowdy Brightwill and Nathan Foster were perverts. Although they didn’t carry any extra weights, they swam with them for so long, but from beginning to end, they didn’t seem tired at all. They seemed to be leisurely enjoying themselves in their own swimming pool. It was as if they were leisurely wasting time.
Ever since Becca Reyes let go, Flossie Wright gradually moved forward again. After all, her physical strength has always been weak. The fact that she could endure until now was already amazing. Regardless of what the others were doing, it was hard for her to speak, so she tried to conserve as much energy as possible.
Rowdy Brightwill who was standing behind, watched the back of Flossie for a while. He looked at Becca Reyes trailing her, feeling slightly bloated in his heart. After a while, he swam over, and softly reminded them when he passed them, "Eight hundred meters to go."
Eight hundred meters, it’s not long nor short.
If they were in high spirits, a swim of eight hundred meters would not be a problem. But in this state of physical exhaustion, even a meter seemed tough.
"Ahhhh, we must do physical training when we get back!"
Seeing Rowdy Brightwill moving forward with ease, just like a creature born in the ocean, all the envy, jealousy, and hatred in Becca Reyes’s heart surged out, inevitably adding a bit more power to her.
Keep charging!
She’d rather die at the finish line than give up now!
Sensing that she was almost at the finish line, if she admitted defeat at this critical moment, wouldn’t all her previous efforts be in vain?
When they had three hundred meters left, Flossie Wright who was still going at a steady pace, suddenly saw Becca Reyes charging forward like a chicken with its head cut off. Flossie took several glances at her in surprise, but without much reaction, she continued at her own pace, without being affected at all.
So, when they had a hundred meters left, Becca Reyes, who had used up all her remaining strength, could only look pitifully at Flossie Wright passing by her side. She muttered to herself about her miscalculation, while gritting her teeth and rushing forward. Even a tortoise could get desperate, so in the last two meters, she managed to overtake Flossie Wright again.
— End of Chapter 188 —