Surviving Demon Island by Jaci Burton

Author:Jaci Burton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: American Light Romantic Fiction, Reality television programs, Romance: Modern, General, Romance, Fantasy, Romantic suspense fiction, Television actors and actresses, Islands, Fiction - Romance, Fiction, Romance - General
ISBN: 9780440243359
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2006-12-26T02:40:26.970000+00:00

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Chapter Fourteen

I nstinct told Derek the water was deep, the fall not high enough to hurt them. He didn’t know why his gut told him that, or why he believed it, but he did.

They landed feet first in the water, which was deep enough they didn’t even touch bottom. Derek fought to the surface, clinging to Gina the entire time. She sputtered as her head shot up out of the water, muttering a string of curses.

“Are you deliberately trying to kill us both?”

“I told you we’d be fine.”

“You’re certifiably insane,” she shouted over the sound of the waterfall.

He grinned, just damn happy to be alive right now.

They swam to shore and dragged themselves and their gear out of the water.

“It’s going to take a while for all of this to dry out. Shouldn’t hurt the weapons. Much,” he said. Hopefully. He’d been out in the rain with the weapons before and it hadn’t affected them. Then again, he’d never submerged them.

Gina swept strands of hair away from her eyes. “Uhhuh. And how are we going to get back up there?” She pointed. “Or contact Lou and the others? Do you even know where we are or how to get back to base?”

“Give me a minute to wring myself out and we’ll figure it out, Gina. Relax.”

“I can’t relax. I just did a free fall into water whose depth you didn’t know. You could have killed me.”

“But I didn’t, did I? Chill.”

She shot him a look that was pure drama. He tried not to laugh, but couldn’t help it.

“Don’t you dare laugh at this. It’s not funny.”

“You have to admit it was one hell of a fun fall.”

She shrugged. “Maybe.”

“Come on. You, the no-fear action movie star who does her own stunts? You can’t tell me you were afraid.”

She squeezed the hem of her shorts and tilted her head to the side, a smile tickling her lips as she looked at him from the corner of her eyes. “It made my stomach flip. Like that first steep drop on a roller coaster.”

“Mine, too. My favorite kind of ride. You gotta learn to trust me, Gina. I’d never purposely put you in harm’s way.”

She studied him for a second. “I’ll work on that trust thing. You keep throwing me over cliffs, though, and it’s going to be difficult.”

Their shoulder lights were still functional, though their ear coms weren’t. Since their eyeshades molded to their heads, they were still attached, thankfully. After testing the UV weaponry, they discovered Derek’s gun still worked. Then he fixed the jammed mechanism on Gina’s rifle and test-fired it. All good there, as well as the other weapons.

“Weapons check good. Unfortunately the only thing not working is the com system.”

“Figures,” Gina said. “Now we have no way of contacting Lou.”

“First thing we do is figure a way out of here. Then, if we can’t, we’ll wait for Lou to realize we’re out of touch and pick us up on his image program.”

Derek studied their surroundings. They were blocked in on all sides by a steep rock face.

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