Jerricho by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773364162
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2021-03-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Brenna woke, groggy and sore, her body aching in places she didn’t expect. She didn’t quite understand why, and yet, as soon as her consciousness returned and her mind flooded with the memories of what she just been through, she understood perfectly. That hard run in the dark over rough terrain and then climbing down the cliff had been hard on her, and, if nothing else, the fear, the panic, the gripping nightmares, and climbing up the ladder to get aboard this ship had hurt. But she was here, and she was safe—at least she thought she was.

Opening her eyes, she saw Jerricho across from her. Sleeping soundly. She smiled. At least he’d gotten some sleep.

Just then, his voice whispered to her, “You look better.”

She shifted closer and said, “You’re supposed to be still sleeping.”

“I got a few hours,” he said. “This is my second nap.”

“Oh,” she said, confused. “Did you change places with Killian?”

“I did,” he said. He sat up, yawned, and then stood up and stretched from the waist up, reaching to the ceiling and dropping back down, so that his hands were on the floor. Then he did it a few more times.

“Does that help?” she asked.

He chuckled. “It sure does.”

“Good,” she said, “I’ll try it.” She slipped out and tried to stretch as high as he did, but, of course, he was much taller, being over six-two, maybe even six-four. She could barely even remember. The size of him was just so hard to judge, as he was broad as well. She stretched down to the floor, groaning as her body complained at the movements.

“Are you okay?” he asked.

“I am,” she said, “just sore, stiff, and tired.”

“Yep,” he said, with a bright grin. “Goes with a life on the run.”

“Oh, happy days.” She laughed. “However, I have lived to see another day. I’m no longer a captive. I’m not on that little rickety boat that you guys took us away in. We’re on a big one. I don’t even know what you call this thing,” she said, “but it feels a hell of a lot more durable and safer than what we were on. Not only that but we have taken out several of the enemy, so maybe it’ll be a straight run home,” she said hopefully, looking up at him.

“We actually found one more,” he said and filled her in on details.

“That’s very disturbing. Imagine if he’d found us in the night?” she murmured.

“You certainly wouldn’t have woken up,” Jerricho said, with a hard smile. “He’d likely have sliced everybody’s throat, moving from one to another silently.”

She gasped and stared at him in shock.

He shrugged. “No point in hiding the truth,” he said. “Because, if you see another one somewhere along the line, that’s all they’ll be intent on doing. We found out a lot of information about the group involved in the auction,” he said. “So we’ve kept the one we captured alive. We’ll pass him to the authorities, when we hit land.”

At the word land, she cried out, “How long?”

“We should be just about there,” he said.

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