Alive at 5 (Entangled Ignite) by Linda Bond

Author:Linda Bond [Bond, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ignite, mystery, enemies to lovers, romantic suspense, cop, Contemporary, TV News Reporter, undercover, Romance, suspense, entangled, Special Ops, Linda Bond
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2014-07-13T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Sam and Captain John Jacobs stood on the bow of The Great Escape, a live-aboard used for shark diving in the Bahamas. The seventy-five-foot charter fishing boat rocked gently, anchored twenty miles off the coast of West End, Grand Bahamas. They’d arrived yesterday, two days after that life changing F-16 flight.

Scuba divers called the area Tiger Beach because of a shallow sand bar below the surface where tiger sharks liked to feed. The X-Force Adventure Vacation Company called it Shark Heaven, the final stop on the advertised adventure vacation.

The glorious cobalt blue sky remained cloud free, and the sun cast streaks of light over the water. The rays of sunshine gave the water texture, and different shades of blue pressed out against the horizon looking like a handmade quilt.

Sam had little time to enjoy the beautiful view. She had another interview to do while continuing to keep an eye out for Robert, who had managed to hide from them—an almost impossible feat aboard a charter boat, even one of this size.

She attached a wireless microphone to the collar of Captain Jacobs’s T-shirt. She and George had continued to shoot video and interviews, knowing if they did prove these accidents were murders, they’d need the footage of the adventure vacation to help tell the story. They also had to keep up their cover. So, the ploy continued.

She wrinkled her nose. Neither the breathtaking scene nor the warm breeze could clear away the smell of melting fish goo. The disgusting, oily aroma crawled up her nose and anchored itself there.

She turned to George, who was setting up the video camera on a tripod in front of the captain. “You ready?”

George nodded.

“All right. Let’s get started.” She stood beside George, facing the captain, so he would look at her and therefore almost directly into the camera.

“Captain Jacob, what are these adventure vacationers going to do today?” She gestured to the five guys seated topside putting on their scuba diving gear, including Zack, who looked focused and serious.

“Here’s what’s gonna happen.” The tall, bearded captain spoke with a raspy smoker’s voice. He gestured to a plastic trash can on deck. Two crewmembers were wrestling the contraption they called “the chumsicle” toward the swim platform at the back of the boat. “We lower this trash can full of frozen fish guts into the water on a float. It’s gonna hover around twenty feet off the bottom, and as it melts the sharks will pick up the smell of blood in the water and come from everywhere. The idea here isn’t to feed the sharks, but to draw them to the bloody bait.”

“What keeps the divers from becoming bait themselves?” Sam asked.

“Good question. They have strict instructions to stay at least twenty-five feet away. Sharks, especially tigers, don’t like to compete for food.”

She wondered how you would judge that kind of distance underwater. She wouldn’t be caught dead putting as much as a big toe in the water that close to sharks.

Her plan was to

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