Chapter 236 - CPR

The time when someone held on her hands and dragged her to the surface, she already lost her consciousness. Riggs instantly dragged Seraphina to the awaiting yacht where X was waiting for them.

Earlier, since Leon's massive distraction, it caused a whole stampede and a terrifying panic to the whole area making it harder for the authorities that were chasing after him to catch up. When suddenly, X voice went through his earpiece saying he needed to jump off the bridge as well as they were reminded that the river's sea level sometimes arises and Seraphina might not make it.

Surely, X statement was spot on as he was also monitoring every little detail of their location -- even the water current and the how many civilians and authorities present.

Without any lingering hesitation, Riggs fearlessly jump off the towering bridge, embracing himself for the impact. Since he was former military and been through hell because of the war -- Riggs wasn't afraid of acquiring injuries as he cannot let Seraphina cover for him and make him deflate his ego as a man.

Fortunately, after Riggs crashed and landed on the river -- probably due to his strong willpower to save Seraphina, he recovered rapidly from the shocking impact. The moment he opened his eyes, there, he saw Seraphina was reaching her hands as she slowly sinks deeper.

'Don't you dare die on me!' Riggs warned inwardly as he propels his arms to Seraphina's direction in the fastest pace he could. Soon, he finally reached her floating hands and dragged her going upward.

Wrapping his arms on her waists, Riggs held her up as they hit the surfaced. Gasping for air, a fast and small yacht immediately went to their sight and X stretch his hands for help.

Their action and every movement were swift without a millisecond delay and in no time, Riggs along with Seraphina's unconscious body hitch on the yacht before it sped away like a bolt of lightning.

Luckily, Seraphina wasn't just dilly-dallying back when she was active in the underworld and stole a lot of valuable things such as the gods' eyes, this 'master of the sea' yacht; that was known as the fastest yacht in the world and so on -- making their escape via the famous river as easy as one two three taking advantage of the ruckus they caused.

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While X wordlessly focused on maneuvering the speeding yacht, Riggs, on the other hand, performed a CPR to Seraphina.

"Boss, you okay? Can you hear me?!" Riggs anxiously taps her shoulders as if checking if she was still alive. Alas, Seraphina wasn't responding which heightened his uneasiness to another degree.

With Seraphina lying on her back, Riggs slightly tilts her head back by her chin, opening her airway, then draw closer to check her breathing. However, as expected, Seraphina wasn't breathing anymore which gave Riggs the go signal to begin a CPR.

Placing his hands, one on top of the other, in the middle of her c_h_e_s_t. Riggs uses his body weight to help her administer compressions that are at least 2 inches deep and delivered at a rate of at least 100 compressions per minute -- hard and fast.

Without any malicious intent and purely out of desperation to save Seraphina, Riggs delivered his rescue breaths. He pinched her nose and placed his mouth over to hers to make a complete seal and give the oxygen that she needed. After two rescue breaths, Riggs continues the compression and repeat the cycle.

After some time, Seraphina finally showed a sign of life and she coughs all the water that she took in. Seeing that she was now saved, Riggs heave a sigh of relieve as he supports her to seat up and slightly taps her back.

"*coughs* *cough*" Seraphina almost cough her lungs out as she gasped for air and stabilizes her breathing. For a moment, she thought it was her end. Alas, part of her was glad that at least, she wouldn't feel burden any longer. Indeed, sometimes, Seraphina was wondering some selfish thoughts as she gets tired of all the pretense on her life.

"Thank God --" before Riggs could realize his action, he heedlessly pulled Seraphina to his embrace in relieve.

"The heck…" Seraphina murmurs since her body was rather weakened probably due to the shock it inflicted from the car crash to the almost drowned her. Hence, she sassed as she slightly wiggles to free herself from Riggs albeit, her action only caused his grip to tighten a little.

"You -- don't you ever trample my ego as a man again." referring to her sacrificial stunt earlier for him.