Distant Echoes by Colleen Coble

Author:Colleen Coble [Coble, Colleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc.
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

Jesse stood on the white sand of Polihale. The bullets from early this morning had dug ridges in the soft lava rocks. He’d retrieved several samples, but he didn’t expect them to prove much. He glanced down the beach and saw Kaia coming toward him. The lack of rest was beginning to show on both of them. He glanced at his watch. He needed to get Heidi at ten.

“I don’t get why the helicopter cared that we showed up unless whatever they were doing was illegal,” Kaia said as she approached him. “There’s nothing out here but sand.”

Jesse nodded toward the mountains. “Waianae Range has the munitions storage in the caves up there. I sent some men up to check it out. I’m wondering if the helicopter planted the explosives to carry out their plan.”

Kaia winced. “They’re not wasting any time. Maybe they were just scouting it out.”

“I hadn’t thought of that. It’s possible. Maybe I should go take a look myself.”

She clutched his arm. “I wish you wouldn’t. What if they managed to plant explosives and they went off while you were up there?”

Did she care if he got hurt? The thought left him smiling. There was something developing between them, and neither of them wanted to talk about it. Jesse was afraid to look at it too closely. He didn’t want to care about another woman. What if he failed again?

He pulled his arm free of her grip and turned away. “I’ll be fine. I’d better check it out.”

“I’ll go with you then.”

He stopped. “No, I don’t want you up there. You’ll be safer here.”

“So would you.” She stuck out her jaw.

He nearly laughed at the pugnacious expression on her face but knew it would make her madder. “You’re not military anyway. This is my job, Kaia.”

“We were nearly shot last night. This is getting scary.” She clasped her arms around herself as if the warm wind were thirty degrees cooler than the balmy eighty degrees.

“I know. And I need to make sure the next missile test is secure.”

“When is that?”

“Next week. Thursday.” He didn’t want to tell her how uneasy he was about that test. He’d been thinking about the Morse code from last night. Hammer fall. What if it had something to do with the missile test? Lawton still believed the problem with the first test had been a malfunction of the computer and that everything was fixed now.

But what if it wasn’t?

Faye cracked eggs for omelets into a bowl and got out the juice. Curtis entered the kitchen, kissed her, then sat at the kitchen table. She whipped the eggs with vigor and didn’t look at him.

“Am I in trouble?” he asked. “You’re beating those eggs like they have personally offended you.”

Tears flooded her eyes. “I’m going to make a hopeless grandmother. I’m tired and cranky and want to go back to bed. I’m feeling my age.”

He stood and put his arms around her. “You’re jumping the gun a little. The kids aren’t even married yet.

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