Check by Pamfiloff Mimi Jean

Author:Pamfiloff, Mimi Jean
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
Publisher: Paper & Silver, Inc.
Published: 2018-08-20T16:00:00+00:00

We made our way across the narrow wooden bridge that led to a path on the west side of the island. I knew it well. There was a beach there I liked to swim at, and not far away was a stunning cliff overlooking the ocean. Rook had made love to me there. But where the hell was this cave?

“I see your limp has gotten worse. Are you all right?” Rook placed his hand gently on my back.

No. I’m terrified. But I also had to trust that if anyone could pull us out of this situation, it was him.

“I still have that cut on the bottom of my foot,” I replied. “Hurts like everything else, but I’ll live.”

He smiled tenderly at me, but didn’t speak. And I couldn’t lie; it was just the reassurance I needed.

We all filed along in silence, the sun now just peeking up over the horizon. Warner and his men walked behind me. Rook led the way.

Rook stopped and pointed to a stand of towering palm trees. “The cave is just over here.”

Strange. I never recalled seeing anything in this spot, and I’d walked this path dozens of times.

Rook walked fifty feet past the trees, reached down, and removed a mat that was loaded with dry leaves and twigs. Underneath was a set of stone steps leading down into a hole in the ground.

The hairs on the back of my neck stood up like quills. Whatever was down there didn’t smell like life-giving water. It smelled of rotting vegetation and death.

“Do not let the odor put you off,” Rook said. “The water has a high sulfur content.”

I stared down into the dark, wet-looking space. My mind immediately conjured images of giant snakes and spiders crawling everywhere. But Mr. cool as a cucumber, true to his form, went right in, flipping on a string of small lights stuck to the wall. I hesitated for a moment, my feet unwilling to carry me down there. You have to go. You have to follow along.

I drew a breath and went in, crouching on the way down. Oh, God. The stench. I pretended not to notice, as if it were all perfectly normal. To my surprise, Warner and his men seemed to be buying it. They entered the stairwell behind me without a word.

Once at the bottom of the steps, we continued down a narrow passage, where another string of lights, stuck to the dripping walls, lit our way to a steel gate. No one seemed to notice that the key to open it hung on the wall. On our side. Those steel bars weren’t for keeping people out. They were for keeping something in.

Please, please don’t be what I think this is.

“It’s just right around the corner,” Rook said.

“We better be there fast, Rook. My patience is running out.”

“Your wait is over.” We stepped into a small underground cavern about seventy feet wide with jagged dripping walls. A small stream trickled from a crack in the ceiling, gathering in a pool below with no visible outlet.

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