Free Secrets (The Secret Series Book 1) by Jax James

were up at least 40 feet or more. There’s no telling what we’re going to find down there and we could be jumping onto shallow rocks. There’s no way to know, but at least up here you have the capability of trying to fight back.” I knew that fighting these people was not an option, because I didn’t have the kind of training that Jason did. If I had, I might have been able to consider that line of thinking, but my best bet was to take my chances in the harsh unforgiving environment of the water down below.
    “I don’t think I have to tell you my answer.” I’m not sure exactly how he was going to survive this, not with that injury now plaguing him. It was up to him to decide what he was going to do. I did like him a lot, but I think I was more concerned with my own life than anything to do with this dangerous man that betrayed me. “I can’t decide this for you, but you either come with me or we part ways right here.”
    “Man, I don’t know if I can survive the fall with my injury, but what the fuck…let’s do it.” We grabbed hands and stood on the precipice of life and death, looking at each other before taking a deep breath and letting it out, while at the same time leaping into the air.
    The ground around us disappeared and it almost seemed like we were moving in slow motion. I don’t know how long it really was, only that the impact into the water was jarring and so cold that it almost froze me from the very beginning. All I could see was blackness and the water that was now surrounding me from every angle and I didn’t even know which way was up or down. The only way that I could determine that was to look and see the light of the moon shining on the surface of the water. This gave me a marker to follow, until finally I was gasping for breath and coming out of my own watery grave.
    “I didn’t think that you would do it, but don’t thing for a second that this changes…any…” The rushing water was more than enough to drown him out, but it was the force of the water that was now dragging me down away from those that wanted to do me harm. I didn’t see any sign of Jason. If he had to die this way, then a least he was dying on his own terms.
    There was something in front of me and then I saw the terrified face of Jason, as I slammed into him, as he was clinging to life on a branch that was stuck out from the other side. I didn’t mean to dislodge him from his safe zone, but it wasn’t like I had much of a choice. “Damn, where the hell did you come from?” The rapids were strong and were pulling us further down, but I suppose I could take some solace in the fact that we were together.
    It didn’t look like he could swim that well and he was basically bobbing up and down in the water trying to stay afloat. “I hit the water hard, but I managed to stay above it, until I was able to grab onto that branch.” I was beside him and I was able to wrap my arms around his chest to keep him from going under, but it was that sound that I’d heard before that was making me have cause for concern. I knew that sound.
    My mind began to formulate a memory from my past where I was swimming with some friends out in the middle of nowhere. There was this watering hole with rushing falls and then a moment of clarity made me realize just exactly what was coming our way.  
    That sound was waterfalls. Though we survived the first fall from on top of the hill it didn’t mean that we were going to be able to survive a fall with rushing water crashing into us all the way down.
    “I don’t want to alarm you, Jason, but we aren’t exactly out of the woods.” He looked at me, but then I think it dawned on him what that sound was. “Let’s try and get over to shore and grab on to anything that we can.” Desperately, we fought against the current as best as we could, grabbing onto slick rocks that were too damn slippery to get a hold on.  
    It appeared that Jason had grabbed onto another branch, but this one