From Thailand with Love by Camilla Isley

Author:Camilla Isley [Isley, Camilla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Adventure Romance, Chick Lit, Clean Romance, Contemporary Romance, Enemies to Lovers, Love Hate, Romantic Comedy, Sweet Romance, Women's Adventure, Women's Fiction
Publisher: Pink Bloom Press
Published: 2020-01-29T16:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

Logan

After so many hours trapped in that tomb, the first gulp of fresh air that fills my lungs is the sweetest I’ve ever tasted. I turn to find Winter beaming up at me in the faint light of the approaching dawn. She’s wet as a drowned rat, smeared all over with dust and mud, bruised, the fear of certain death still visible in her eyes. And yet, I’ve never seen a more beautiful woman in my entire life.

I smile back at her. “We made it!”

Winter surprises me with a high-five, and then undoes her tresses and shakes the water off, wet-dog style. I’m positively hypnotized.

“Where are we?” she asks.

I check our surroundings, trying to orient myself. We’re on a hill, the mass of the temple at our backs, and a stretch of untouched jungle expanding before us in a huge valley.

“We must’ve gotten out the other side of the temple,” I say, taking a better look at the vale opening below us.

That’s when my brain clicks.

The memory of the satellite images superimposes with the planes and hills before my eyes, turning rises into buildings and the flat stretches of ground into roads and plazas.

“Look,” I say, pointing forward. “This isn’t natural. See the straight lines and regularity of the mounds?”

I can’t believe it! It’s like staring at a monochromatic-green plastic of a city grid. There are roads, canals, and moats around all the principal structures, and the river we followed must be an artificial stream; it encloses and encircles the city. All the important buildings face east, toward the rising sun, as was often the case in local ancient cultures. The temple we came out of does, and so do the other vine-covered mounds—which are probably the city’s religious and government buildings.

At the city’s edge, forts and walls line the perimeter, and underneath the vegetation, I can see sparkles of gold in the dawn’s light. An entire city of gold—and I don’t care if it’s just a layer of paint. Once cleaned of the weeds, this will be the most magnificent historical site in the world.

Winter steps next to me. “It’s really something, huh? Pity you drowned my camera. This would’ve been a beautiful picture.”

Is she seriously blaming me for the camera? It’s not like I tried to fall into the river. “Sorry if I was busy trying to save both our lives,” I snap.

She nudges me gently with her elbow. “I was kidding.”

“Oh.”

Winter runs her fingers between her wet locks, distracting me from my irritation. “What’s the plan now?” she asks. “Where do you reckon Smith’s at?”

“Judging from the sun’s position, we must’ve been trapped in the temple for about twelve hours. I bet Smith used this time to move the boxes out of the building, but he can’t carry the booty away by himself. He must plan to use the mule, and Somchai took it back to base camp. If we’re lucky, he’s waiting at the temporary camp for them to return.”

“And then what?” Winter asks. “He single-handedly

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