May Contain Spies: A Spy Thriller (Meet Abby Banks Book 1) by J.A. Cipriano

Author:J.A. Cipriano
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2015-04-22T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

We were in the water. It was surprisingly warm for being a billion miles beneath the surface. This might have had to do with the super-expensive looking gizmos on my scuba suit that kept whirring and blinking with all sorts of lights. I glanced around, but couldn’t see beyond the end of the flashlight in my hand. Its beam extended only a couple feet into the distance before being swallowed by dark water.

I swallowed, still unused to breathing through my Darth Vader mouthpiece, and tried to keep calm like Esmer— my mother— had told me. The more I panicked, the more oxygen I would use. Running out of air didn’t exactly seem fun. Then again, I wasn’t even breathing air. I was breathing some kind of weird nitrogen mixture so my lungs wouldn’t explode. Man… even the air wasn’t genuine.

I glanced back toward where the submarine should have been but couldn’t see it through the inky blackness. I wished once again that my mother had brought a bigger vehicle. Why we hadn’t taken her submarine was immediately clear when we hit the water. Her ship was designed only for one person, so I wasn’t going to fit.

Also, since she’d cut a hole in Donovan’s submarine, if she detached, water would rush inside, killing both him and Stephen. Since they were alive, albeit unconscious, this seemed like a particularly bad plan since they were supposed to be colleagues.

I suppose we could have taken them with us, but well, she didn’t want to do that for reasons she hadn’t quite explained. This meant that now I was swimming under the ocean with my adoptive mother’s hand locked in a death grip.

Still, part of me was glad we were leaving them behind. There was something about Donovan that made him hard to trust, and well, I wasn’t sure I could trust Stephen either because, after all, I was leverage. Esmeralda, on the other hand, had come all this way just to save me. If I couldn’t trust her, I was screwed.

Already, my legs were starting to burn from the effort of kicking, which was lame because as I watched my mom and tried to mimic her perfect, mermaid-like strides… I just couldn’t. My kicks were all disjointed, and I kept swinging my flashlight around at every shadow. This made my body start to spin, and I’d have to kick again to right myself. It was getting very tiring.

“I still don’t think this is a wise way for one to first experience the joys of scuba diving,” I said, glaring at a shadow that turned out to be an outcropping of rock. “You could have taught me to do this, you know, in the comfort of our local pool.”

“Abby,” my mother sighed, her voice coming through the speakers embedded in the helmet just above my ears so it was like hearing her in surround sound. “I could have done a lot of things differently. Do you want me to go back in time

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