Shipwreck by William Nikkel

Author:William Nikkel [Nikkel, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Suspense Publishing
Published: 2016-11-15T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 47

Jack stared at the foamy path behind the boat, leaving Dana to her thoughts. He knew exactly what she meant. Years back, he had found the answer to what made his life worth living.

And only recently, he realized exactly how important it was to have Dana be a part of it.

We belong together.

Time passed quickly. And finally, the rusted-out hulk of the WWII Liberty Ship and the long jagged lines of white water marking the reef came into view. And with the sight, his heartrate quickened. The wind didn’t appear to have slacked off much, and the sea continued to be rougher than he hoped it would be. But the rain that threatened all morning continued to hold.

Their gamble might pay off.

At least they were dry.

He hurried into the salon, dug into the cabinet at Robert’s feet, and found the Leica Geovid 15x56 waterproof binoculars. They looked brand new.

“Careful with those,” Robert said. “They cost me twenty-five hundred dollars on sale.”

“I promise I won’t scratch the lenses.” He scanned the expanse of water ahead and to the starboard of them not really expecting to see the Orochimaru run aground on the reef but anything was possible. Failing to see the wrecked yacht or any boat other than the rusted-out hulk of the ship that gave the beach its name, he turned the field glasses on the stretch of sand to port. Takahashi didn’t appear to have a salvage vessel out on the water, but she had men watching from someplace. He was sure of it. Still, he didn’t spot them anywhere.

That bothered him more than if he had.

Lowering the field glasses from his eyes, he turned to Dana, and said, “You’re probably more qualified than any of us to operate this tub of Robert’s. Yet, other than your idle chatter with Kazuko about my personal life, you’ve pretty much kept any comments you’ve had about what we’re doing or how we’re going about doing it, to yourself. I’m interested in hearing what you have to say.”

She joined him at the windscreen and directed her gaze at the glass. “You mean besides you needing more sophisticated sonar equipment?”

“We know that,” he said. “But we’ve got what we’ve got and we’ll make it work.”

She turned to him. “Then I say you’re doing all you can do given the circumstances. Just keep your distance from that reef. It’d be awfully embarrassing for me to have to call my captain and have him send a boat out to rescue us.”

He offered a smile of reassurance. “We’ll make sure that doesn’t happen.”

“You have no idea how happy that makes me.”

Raising the binoculars to his eyes, he studied the shoreline. The yacht wasn’t run aground on the coral, but there was a chance he’d catch a glimpse of flotsam with the yacht’s name on it, a life ring, something washed up on the sand that indicated the boat went down in the area.

That they even had a chance of finding it.

A needle in a great big ocean haystack.

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