Silent Hunter by Maggie K. Black

Author:Maggie K. Black [Black, Maggie K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-02-26T08:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

They covered Russ’s body the best they could, burying him in chunks of broken canoes like a funeral mound. Then Luke dropped to his knees in silent prayer beside the body. Anger burned in his chest. A man was dead. Shot down like an animal for what? Because of the evil in another man’s heart? Had Russ been in league with the Hunter? Or had he just been in the wrong place at the wrong time? Either way, he didn’t deserve for his life to end this way. God, have mercy. Please bring this man’s killer to justice. Don’t let another person be hurt by his cruelty. Nicky knelt beside him for a moment. Tears trickled lightly down her cheek, and everything inside his chest ached to wipe them away. “We need a plan for getting off this island.”

She nodded, then stood and wiped the dirt from her jeans. “No amount of duct tape is going to make one of these seaworthy. And you’re right, we’re probably safer sticking together. Until right now, I thought the Hunter was only out to sabotage things and wasn’t actually trying to kill anyone. I was obviously wrong. Our best option now is to scavenge what we can from the camp and the obstacle course to build a raft. If we can find the others while we’re at it, all the better.”

They turned and walked back up the path toward the camp. “Also, I’m still not giving up hope that Trevor decided yesterday that taking a couple of people to hospital was a reasonable excuse to take the evening off, and he’s going to eventually get back here with that motorboat.”

“Do you trust him?”

“Trevor? Nope. Not as far as I could throw him. But I trust George.” She cast him a dry, sideways glance. “Sounds like you do, too.”

In the aftermath of finding Russ’s body, they hadn’t paused a moment to talk about Luke’s confession about the stolen camp cash box or ending up in a jail cell. Maybe there wasn’t much to say.

“We should also search the island for the Hunter’s boat,” he said. “He must have some kind of watercraft moored here somewhere.”

“Agreed. I just can’t imagine where.”

They kept walking. With every breath that filled his chest, Luke could feel the desire inside him to protect the wild, tenacious beauty walking beside him. Nicky deserved a life—a life every bit as wonderful as she was, filled with all her ambitious, creative dreams coming true.

Lord, You know I’d do whatever it takes to make that happen. But how can I protect her when I can’t even see the danger?

For a moment he almost wished he hadn’t left his own handmade bow back in the car. Not that a six-foot-tall wooden bow was the right weapon to go stalking through the woods with, or that any of the purely recreational arrows in his quiver would’ve been good against a human target.

The trees parted and the campsite came into view. Wow. She wasn’t kidding.

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