Ryker by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773362878
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2020-04-04T00:00:00+00:00

Ryker walked to the small table and pulled out a spare chair for Miles, then sat back down again. “Well, we’d like to think that Pablo is okay, but he wasn’t at the hospital when I checked.”

She leaned forward to stare at him in shock. He smiled and then grabbed her fingers and said, “Now that doesn’t mean he’s died, and it doesn’t mean that the guerrillas came and stole him away either.”

“What does it mean?”

“It means, after breakfast, we’ll talk to a different group and see what happened to him,” he said. “Nobody could tell us anything.”

She sat back and pinched her lips together.

“Remember. He survived an awful lot already. I doubt he died overnight.”

“He was in a really ugly shape,” she said quietly. “I would not be surprised if he passed in the night.”

“Well, let’s hope not,” Miles said. “We went to a lot of effort to keep him alive.”

She nodded. “And I guess we can blame the guerrillas for that loss too, if that’s the case.”

“I’d say his uncle as much as anything,” Ryker said. “I’d love to get the uncle’s name and pass on the word as to what he did, but I don’t think it’ll do a bit of good in this place.”

He watched as she turned to stare out at the ocean, the joy and the holiday spirit now gone as the reality of what they had survived settled in. She looked at Miles. “Is Andy okay?”

Miles nodded. “I just spoke to him. He’ll join us soon.”

She winced and looked around at her laundry. “Well, let me check and see if all this is dry.” She hopped up, quickly checked and snatched up the few pieces hanging around.

“Leave the jeans until later,” Ryker said.

She nodded and headed back inside to the bathroom to dress further.

Miles looked at him. “Got in deep pretty fast, didn’t you?”

“I did,” Ryker said. His tone was short and terse. “Don’t read too much into it.”

“Not reading anything into it,” he said cheerfully. “But it doesn’t mean that there won’t be some repercussions.”

“True,” he said, “but I can’t say I’m too interested in an ugly fallout.”

“Doesn’t have to be an ugly fallout,” Miles said. “Depends on what you want.”

“Is it wrong to say, all of it?”

“I don’t know. All of it is asking for a bit much but, as long as you two are on the same page, then maybe not.”

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