Cold Fury by Don Pendleton

Author:Don Pendleton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Worldwide Library
Published: 2019-09-18T16:15:11+00:00

Chapter Seven

Inuit Village

The Alaskan Interior

Consciousness returned to Bolan gradually, in small bits and pieces, and he wasn’t sure if it was real or a dream. Warmth and softness embraced him like a pair of arms, accompanied by a pale, glowing light. The textures felt good against his skin, then it all faded away as quickly as it had appeared and he felt himself drifting again. He was floating on air... No, not on air. In water. Warm water. A luscious pond. The air smelled strange. A smokiness laced with something else that he couldn’t quite determine. A fragrance. Familiar, yet strange.

Then he was lost again in that nebulous state.

Burning.

Floating.

Cooling.

His breathing quickened. He felt pressure, then release, like he had fallen off a cliff.

After a time, consciousness returned and he became cognizant that another body lay intertwined with his... It was Nikita Kournikova. And she was naked. So was he. They both lay under heavy layers of animal skins in some kind of large hut with walls made of mud and tree branches and woven tarps. The bright coals of a fire glowed under a chimney of sorts about six feet away, adjacent to a large, trimmed tree trunk in the center of the hut that acted as a support beam for the angled sections of roofing. Four oil-burning lamps flickered in the semidarkness, providing fairly good illumination.

“So, l’vionak, you are awake. How do you feel?”

He looked at her face, which was inches from his.

“What is this? Where are we?”

She put a finger over his lips. “We are in an Inuit village,” she said. “They call you the man-wolf. A great warrior.”

“How did this happen?” he asked.

“They were watching our battle. They brought us here afterward.”

“Why?”

Kournikova smiled. “You and Jack had very serious reactions to the inoculations. You collapsed and were burning up with fever. After the Inuit brought us here, we tried bathing you both in cooling water. Then your temperatures began dropping. You became so cold, we thought you were going to die. It became necessary to keep you warm by providing the warmth of another next to you.”

Bolan felt the softness of her breasts pressing against him.

“Which you did.”

“Yes. It was the only way to save you.” She traced her finger over his face and down his chest. “Apparently, it was successful. How do you feel?”

“Better. What about Jack?”

“He is all right and in another hut, a little more sick than you. But of course, you had that long period where you were running around without your parka in the frigid weather. It no doubt made things worse. Much worse.”

Bolan looked down at the substantial coverings on top of them.

“Did he get this same treatment?”

“He did,” she said then laughed. “But not from me. I had one of the Inuit women, an old grandmother, stay with him.”

She slowly separated herself from his body, pulled back the coverings and got to her feet. Bolan marveled at the beauty of her nakedness. She made no attempt to cover herself.

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