Jungle Inferno by Desiree Holt

Author:Desiree Holt [Holt, Desiree]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-10-26T19:53:55+00:00

“And?” Rick raised his eyebrow. “We pick our staff carefully. I can’t believe anything’s falling through the cracks.”

“That’s not it. All that’s going well. It’s that woman.” Rick raised an eyebrow. “Woman?”

“Faith Wilding. She’s left three more messages for you.” One corner of his mouth lifted in a grin. “Are you sure this isn’t one of the many women you’ve blazed your path of destruction through?”

“Damn it. No. You think I’m such a shithead I wouldn’t remember?” He made a sound of disgust. “Anyway, no one I ever slept with would call me Eric. I can’t think of a single person who uses that name anymore.”

“Well, she’s damn anxious to talk to you.” He held out the sat phone. “Find out what she wants.”

“Not until Joey’s awake and I can get a handle on things. Right now that’s all that’s important.”

At that moment his brother groaned, a raw sound that made the hair on Rick’s neck stand up. He leaned over the bed.

“Joey? It’s me, kid.”

Joey’s hand flailed and Troy locked his fingers around the younger man’s wrists to keep him from knocking himself loose from the equipment.

“Give him a second,” he told the others. “He’s coming around but he’s fighting it.” Troy was right. In a moment Joey settled back and his eyelids opened slowly. When he caught sight of Rick bending over him a look of shock spread over his face.

“Rick?” His voice sounded as if it was scraped from the bottom of a barrel. “God.

That really you?”

“It’s me, kid.”

Joey struggled to sit up and they had to restrain him again.

“Take it easy,” Rick told him. “Wherever you were, you’re safe now.” The younger man’s head fell back on the pillow, pain slashing across his face. His breath rasped from his lungs. “Safe. A joke.”

“Joey?” Dan moved to the bedside. “Are you up to talking at all?”

“What he needs is rest,” Rick told them.

“No.” The word rasped from his throat. “Have to tell you. Need…to talk.” Troy filled a glass with water, stuck a straw in it and helped Joey to sit up so he could take a few sips. “Just go easy, okay?”

“Rick,” he began again. “Please. Listen.”

Rich looked up at Troy, who nodded his head.

“Okay, kid. Let’s have it.”

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