Midnight Sun by M J Fredrick

Author:M J Fredrick [M J Fredrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Published: 2011-06-05T14:00:00+00:00

He’d been sitting for a bit, trying not to think about his throbbing hand, easy enough to do when a kid was bleeding to death in front of him, when someone eased up behind him. He glanced back to see Monica, Brylie’s assistant chef, the one who’d been so brave about getting the food for the other passengers, for taking Brylie’s place.

“Is she okay?” Monica whispered, her voice barely audible.

He nodded. “She’s safe.”

“Alone now, though.”

“With a phone and a gun, well-hidden.”

Monica squeezed his arm in gratitude. He glanced about to gauge the distance of the other passengers, the interest they showed in his conversation with Monica, then leaned back a bit.

“Who is working with them?”

Monica’s dark eyes widened. “What are you talking about?”

“Two passengers are helping them out—at least two. I know who one is, but can’t figure out the voice of the other.”

She leaned closer. “You heard them? Man or woman?”

“Man. Have you seen them go off with one of the passengers? Or maybe one of the crew?”

She shook her head, her full lips pressed together.

How could she not? Marcus had clearly heard the man and one of the pirates speaking in the kitchen. They had to have walked right past here. Of course, maybe Monica and the others were too shocked from the shooting to see anything else going on.

“What happened there?” He gestured with his head to the young man losing his battle despite the doctor’s best efforts.

Monica glanced about and scooted closer. “After the storm, a couple of the pirates were ill. A few more were elsewhere on the ship, and only three remained in here. Those four guys were whispering together and they charged them at the same time. One of them was shot in the chest, and died right away. The other one was shot in the abdomen, and the other two were hit on the head and subdued.”

“Was anyone else hurt?” Marcus had looked over the passengers, but didn’t know if anyone was missing. But he had thought more people were on board to begin with.

“One of the tour guides was grazed.” Monica nodded in the direction of a woman who cradled a bandaged arm.

“So where is everyone else?”

Monica shook her head. “This is everyone else.”

He frowned. The roster had said two hundred people were on board, and another thirty as crew. He’d counted less than half of that in this room. The captain, he was sure, was on the bridge, and maybe a couple of others were running the ship. Had some been moved to the terrorists’ ship?

“You!” One of the pirates, the one Marcus had heard called Israel, jabbed a finger in his direction. “It’s time to feed these people.”

Marcus braced his good hand on the carpet beneath him to rise, but Monica’s grip on his shoulder told him she was the object of Israel’s attention.

“I can help,” he volunteered. He’d be in the kitchen, where Brylie was. He couldn’t even glance at the freezer lest he give himself away, but just being closer to her would make him feel better.

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