Last Chance by Lindsay McKenna

Author:Lindsay McKenna [McKenna, Lindsay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: military, Romance
ISBN: 9781929977130
Publisher: Blue Turtle Publishing
Published: 2015-07-11T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 3

When the third soldier, the leader and one she’d struck with the limb, joined the others, Lia gasped. The three men stood talking in low voices for several minutes, and then they drew closer, heads down, slowly following her muddy footprint trail. Lia breathed into the sat phone, “Th-they’re following my tracks . . . ,” and she could feel her breath being stolen from her body. She was going to die!

No! No matter how cut up she was, no matter how many scars on her body, no matter that every man who looked at her thought she was repugnant, she wanted to live!

“Lia,” Robert asked quietly, “how close are they?”

She could barely talk, desperately looking for ways out of this trap. “Uh, maybe three hundred feet . . .” Her mind was shorting out, and she was unbearably thirsty. Her legs were knotting up and screaming without relief. Yet she didn’t dare move.

“Can you slowly extricate yourself from that grove and move opposite to where the soldiers are?” he asked.

Squeezing her eyes shut, trying not to cry, Lia choked out, “Y-yes . . .” Because if she didn’t leave this place, they would track her right to where she was. She was equally paralyzed that if she moved, they would spot her, too.

“Then do it. I’ll stay on the line, Lia. You can do this. You know how to be silent. Stay down below the jungle leaves, crouch or crawl if you need to, but get down off that hill. Do it now.”

Just the authority, the confidence, in his voice gave her the courage to try. Robert had been down to this area, and he knew how bushy the underbrush was here. It helped that he knew the lay of the landscape. She barely moved, keeping her head down below the rich plant life that shielded her from view. Lia realized those plants would keep her hidden if she didn’t move too abruptly.

The jungle darkened, the moonlight blocked by silent clouds drifting overhead. She had to try to get off this hill!

She gritted her teeth, nostrils flaring as she sucked in huge amounts of oxygen to escape the agonizing pain.

Now! Move now!

Taking the AK-47 in one hand, the sat phone in the other, Lia eased onto her knees. Soggy broken sticks jabbed into her flesh, but she didn’t feel the pain. Adrenaline rushed through her again, and her heart was preparing for another survival run. She was going to live, damn it!

In five minutes, she was down off the hill. The soldiers had disappeared, and she had located a thick grove of plants. Slowly, lying on her belly, her head oriented toward the hill so she could see anyone approaching, she dragged the phone up to her mouth and whispered, “I-I’m off the hill.”

“Do you see the tangos?”

Lucky for her, she’d been in the military and knew Robert meant “the enemy.”

“Negative.”

“Good. Well done, Lia. I’m proud of you. Now, do you know this jungle well enough to find

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