Always Ready by T.A. Chase

Author:T.A. Chase [Chase, T.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Erotic Romance Fiction
Publisher: Totally Bound Publishing
Published: 2015-11-28T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

What had gone wrong? Phil wondered as he bobbed in the water, floating on his back and staring up into the gray sky. A twenty foot wave had hit the boat on the starboard side, swept over it, and must have been at just the right angle to capsize it.

There was no boat left anywhere that Phil could see, only buoys and rubber tubs used to store things on deck. He glanced around as he hoped to see other orange immersion suits nearby.

Pain radiated from his side and chest, and Phil hissed while trying to ignore it. He must have broken some ribs and his collarbone when he got swept overboard. He was lucky that one of the guys had somehow managed to throw him an immersion suit before the second wave hit that had taken the rest off the vessel and into the water.

With shaking fingers, he activated his Personal Locator Beacon, and after it started blinking, he closed his eyes to take another cautious breath.

Please don’t let Dean be the one sent to save my ass. If I don’t make it, he’ll never forgive himself for not pulling me out in time.

“Hey, Rhody, you all right?”

“Bobby, where are you?” he called out, though it hurt like hell to raise his voice.

“I’m not sure what direction I’m in from you,” Bobby admitted. “I just saw your suit, and hoped it was you.” He coughed, and Phil imagined he’d breathed some water in when he’d washed in the sea.

The waves crashed into and over him, and it swelled beneath him. Phil was surrounded by water like he’d never been before. Being on a hundred-fifty foot fishing vessel was one thing. Bobbing in the freezing water like a marking buoy was an entirely different feeling.

“How long do you think it’ll take the Coasties to get here?”

Phil didn’t have any clue, but he wasn’t about to tell Bobby that. Bobby was a greenhorn, and Opilio season had been his first time out on a crab boat. He hadn’t been terrible, just slow, but learning. Now he would have to fight being afraid of the water and a boat for a while before he got back on one.

Phil had seen that happen to a lot of guys who came out to try crabbing, and ended up staying a season or not even making it to the end of one. For some reason, most of them thought that just because they were athletic or strong, working on a crab boat would be easy. Phil usually just shook his head and laughed when the greenhorns strutted around like they were big shit.

They all got the crap knocked out of them within minutes of hanging bait and setting pots. When the captain decided it was time, there wasn’t a minute to breathe in between the crab pots until all one hundred and fifty metal cages were dropped to the bottom of the sea.

“Rhody, you still there?” Bobby’s voice held a hint of panic.

“Yeah. Sorry, sort of drifted off there.

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