Into the Bermuda Triangle by Jordan Castillo Price

Author:Jordan Castillo Price [Price, Jordan Castillo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Gay, Fantasy, Free read, Romance, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781476091440
Goodreads: 13646230
Publisher: JCP Books LLC
Published: 2012-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

“You’re keeping him in the cockpit?” Dallas snapped. “Are you sure?” He wanted to grab that woman and shake some sense into her—and if she wasn’t busy steering the damn plane, he would have been sorely tempted.

Kaye looked away from the instrument panel, which would begin its nonsense any minute now, and she met Dallas’ gaze, and held it. “Marlin is gone,” she said. “And so…we need Paul to stay.”

“Gone?” Dallas repeated. “What do you mean, gone?” Maybe he quit…but that thought didn’t ring true. You can’t quit Flight 511. “Gone, as in…well…gone, how?”

Kaye checked her watch, sighed, and said, “Dead.”

The aircraft shuddered—the first pocket of turbulence—and Dallas looked at the instrument panel…and then the fuel gauge began rotating toward empty as if someone had peeled open the tank and left the fuel to stream out behind them in an oily, golden ribbon.

And so it began. “How much did you tell him?” Dallas said.

“Nothing,” Kaye said, very calmly. Or maybe it was resignation. “I was planning on sending him into the cabin with you.”

Paul was watching the instrument panel in horror as the artificial horizon began a lazy rotation like a stopwatch, as if they were flying in a corkscrew, and the accelerometer showed they were traveling at 40 knots. And then 180 knots. And then that they were stopped.

He changed channels in an attempt to contact the tower. “Bermuda ground, this is Flight 511 in system failure, request emergency landing.” Static. Dallas wasn’t wearing a headset—he just knew what Paul would be hearing. Because the foolishness never varied. “Bermuda?”

The electrical compass started to spin. Right on cue.

“Fort Lauderdale, do you read, this is Flight 511…mayday….”

Dallas shook his head. Lord, maybe you could find it in your heart to go easy on us, just this once. I’m not asking for myself….

Then the second pocket of turbulence, one that nearly threw Dallas off his feet. At this point in the flight, he’d usually be telling the passengers not to mind the bumpy ride, it was perfectly normal, and they’d be landing at Wade International Airport in just a few minutes. Then he’d strap himself down for the next big bump.

“Go on,” Kaye told him. “I’ll handle this.”

Was there even time? Barely. But…Paul. There that poor man was, scrambling to save the craft that looked as if it was fixing to drop right out of the sky. Marlin always said it spooked him, even though he knew it was how it was all gonna go down.

Marlin. Who was dead. “What happened to Marlin?” he asked Kaye, while Paul searched frantically for a clear channel.

“They didn’t say.”

Dallas couldn’t have said specifically why, since Kaye was about as easy to read as a paperback that had been left out in the rain, but he was positive she knew. Hopefully the passengers had paid attention to the “fasten seatbelt” sign…and if they didn’t, he’d deal with it in a few minutes. Seeing as how he was in the cockpit now, he might not know exactly how he would ultimately handle the cabin situation.

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