Pine Lake by Amanda Stevens

Author:Amanda Stevens
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin Intrigue
Published: 2017-10-19T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Jack swung around, searching the darkness and then rising quickly to stride to the edge of the dock. He stood for a moment tracking the light before he turned back to her. “Wait here. I’m going down there to have a look.”

“In the boat?” Of course, in the boat. Did she think he was going to swim to the bridge?

He was already loosening the dock lines. She got up to help. “Let me go with you.”

“It’s best if you stay here.”

“Why? What do you expect to find?”

He glanced back toward the flickering light. “Someone’s walking the bridge with a flashlight. The better question is, what do they hope to find?”

“Evidence,” she said on a surge of excitement. “Something that got left behind.”

“Possibly.”

“Even more reason I should go with you. Another pair of eyes.” Or another target. She wasn’t a particularly brave person. Where was all this sudden pluckiness coming from?

Jack stepped down in the boat and reluctantly offered her a hand. “We’ll leave the lights off. He’ll hear the outboard, but he may not be able to place the sound until we’re already closing in.”

Olive was buzzing from head to toe. “Sounds like a plan.”

He gave her a warning look. “Running dark is risky in this water. If we hit a stump, we may have to swim ashore.”

“Duly noted.” She jumped down into the boat and then Jack started the outboard, slowly backing out into the channel. Once he’d cleared the dock, he turned the wheel sharply and hit the throttle. The boat swung around so swiftly, Olive almost lost her balance. She sat down hard and clutched the edge of the seat as the bow lifted out of the water. Jack hit the trim button and they picked up speed, skimming across the dark surface as if the devil himself were behind them. Olive liked the lake and she liked boats, but racing through a dark, perilous channel, possibly toward a murderer, was a thrill like nothing she’d ever experienced.

Behind the wheel, Jack was little more than a silhouette. She watched his profile for a moment and then turned to peer through the flying darkness as the wind buffeted her face and tore at her hair.

He didn’t back off the throttle until they approached the bridge and then he shifted into idle speed. The flashlight Olive had spotted earlier was nowhere to be seen. Undoubtedly, the searcher had taken to the woods as soon as he’d heard the outboard. But as Olive scoured the shadowy deck, she could have sworn she saw a dark figure huddled near the guardrail.

“There!” she shouted over the rumble of the motor.

Jack flipped on the spotlight and the powerful beam tunneled through the darkness, leaping out of the water to climb the iron support beams. Olive almost expected to see glowing eyes in a pale face staring back at them. There was nothing but shadows.

Jack turned off the engine and they sat in inky silence as he played the light all along the bridge and up into the truss.

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