All In by Zackman Gabra

Author:Zackman, Gabra [Zackman, Gabra]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Pocket Star
Published: 2014-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

9

LISA BEE AND JACKSON had traveled the remaining hour and a half or so to the Friouato Caves and were almost at their target. It had been an even bumpier ride since they left the hotel, and Lisa Bee wished she could have taken the ride on a pillow; as it was, she was quite sore. The caves were a tourist destination, but there were so many miles of undiscovered caverns that it was possible groups of people lived in the bowels of the place. Jackson’s friend Hassan had told him that there were some “old friends” of theirs who could be found squatting in one of the untraversed sections of the caverns and that these people might be able to put them on the right track.

The sun was rising when they got to the caves. Though the park wasn’t open for tourists until seven A.M., Jackson knew a back way in. Before heading inside, Lisa Bee called AJ. She and Jackson were in full spelunking gear, both carried backpacks, and each wore a hidden earpiece and a hidden camera inside their headlamps. The call connected, and AJ answered. “Don’t you two look fabulous!”

“Oh, great,” Lisa Bee said, “so you can see us? We’ve got a video feed from the headlamps, yes? Can you hear us if I hang up?”

“Click the button on the earpiece. Ah! There we go. Now hang up. Got you both.”

“Excellent,” Jackson said as they packed stuff in the Vespa’s under-the-seat compartment. “So how far can we go down?”

AJ laughed. “You really want me to answer that without a joke? Okay. I can get the first fifty feet down with no problem. Farther than that and I can’t. But I’ll be able to pick you right up again when you surface. And you can go underwater or in mud; I’ll be able to get it all. In other words, spelunk as much as you like.”

Jackson said with a grin, “If I had a nickel—”

Lisa Bee gave him a playful slap. “Did you catch that, Fingers? That was for you.”

“Oh, I got it all right. Thanks for that. Jackson, turn to face Lisa Bee for a second? Bee, is that a pink caving harness you’re wearing?”

Lisa Bee smiled and proudly modeled it. “Jackie wanted us to look like tourists, and his friend happened to have this on hand, so I figured it would work.”

“I dig it,” AJ said. “Jackson, is that the way your harness is supposed to fit? It looks like you’re trying to showcase the family jewels.”

“When you got ’em, flaunt ’em,” he responded.

“Yes,” she said, “but that’s kind of a five-pound case for a ten-pound necklace, you know what I mean?”

The Boss came on the line as well. “Can we do anything without referencing Jackson’s gems? I mean, we do have a case to solve.”

“Whoa whoa whoa,” Jackson said. “How’s the Boss in on this?”

“I patched him in to keep you in line, Jackson,” AJ said with laughter in her voice. “I didn’t think I could handle you on my own.

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