Half a minute before the dive started, Mila Larson shot Sebastian Graves a look. He got the message immediately. At the exact same moment, they both let go of my safety line and swam back toward shore, leaving me alone in the freezing water. Sebastian stood at the edge of the beach with that easy smile of his. "Mila says you're scared to get in the water. The only way to get over a fear is to face it. So this time, you're doing it on your own." The seawater rose past my chin. The fear inside me swelled with it, bigger and bigger, until all I could do was thrash and fight to keep myself above the surface. Mila stood there with her phone up, filming every second of it. She was laughing so hard she could barely stay upright. Sebastian leaned down and murmured something in her ear. I was too far away to hear him, but I knew exactly what it had to be. "Okay, stop laughing at her. Tessa's scared to get in the water."