Hell or High Water by Julie Ann Walker

Author:Julie Ann Walker [Walker, Julie Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Suspense, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781492608905
Google: FawJogEACAAJ
Amazon: 1492608904
Goodreads: 23510148
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Published: 2015-07-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

2:46 p.m.…

“Leo!” Olivia yelled, lifting her arm out of the water to signal him. He didn’t hear or see her. He’d already dived beneath the waves, headed her way.

She choked on a sob that should have mortified her with its strength. But she was so damned happy he was alive that she couldn’t make herself care that her tough outer shell had developed a series of huge, gaping cracks. When she hadn’t seen him or his men emerge from behind the dinghy after it sank, she’d contemplated the worst, that they’d all somehow been killed in the seconds her vision was obscured by that stupid, idiotic wave.

But as she’d swum and swum and swum, her muscles on fire from the exertion, she’d refused to let herself really believe it. Repeating the same mantra over and over as she fought the wind and the tide: He’s not dead. He can’t be dead. He’s not dead. He can’t be dead…

Then, just as one of the terrorists noticed her and took aim in her direction—yeah¸ that would be one second she relived in her nightmares—the bearded men were all yanked beneath the surface of the sea as if they’d been set upon by a school of sharks. But she’d known it wasn’t sharks that dragged them down. It was frogs. As in frogmen. As in Navy motherfriggin’ SEALs!

The relief had overwhelmed her, filling her chest with choking cries. She’d thought maybe she was about to turn into the spokeswoman for Kleenex and Visine, and have a good ol’ fashioned breakdown of hysterical, tear-filled happiness, but ten seconds stretched into twenty and then thirty…and no Leo, just waves upon waves lapping over the surface of the sea. She’d held her breath when she saw two dark heads briefly breach the surface, her eyes searching, her whole heart hoping…but no blond head bobbed up next to them. Then the two dark heads disappeared again.

She’d renewed her efforts, paddling against the current, buffeted by the surf, spitting out the occasional mouthful of salt water when a wave hit her full in the face, or pushing aside a piece of the floating debris left behind because the Wayfarer had given up the ghost. Just when she began to think there was no way—no way anyone could hold their breath for that long—all four men blasted out of the sea like human torpedoes. And she hadn’t stopped swimming in their direction until now when she simply floated, waiting for him to come to her, her heart so full of joy it was a wonder the organ didn’t burst from trying to contain it.

Then…he was there, surfacing next to her, water sheeting over his head and down his wonderful face. He pulled her into his arms and she was instantly enveloped by his wet warmth, his impossible strength, his…everything.

“You okay?” he asked, his deep voice purring in her ear.

“Leo,” she breathed, burying her nose in his neck while their legs briefly tangled as they kicked to keep themselves afloat.

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