The Cruise by A. Nation

Author:A. Nation
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: murder mystery, ghost story, crime, cruise, ship, Hawaii, fiction, Urban fantasy
Publisher: A. Nation
Published: 2017-12-14T05:00:00+00:00

I slumped down on the edge of the bed I had slept in last night. Wait, I wasn’t here last night.

“Trisha, would you mind if I took a catnap for a few minutes?”

“No, but as soon as our luggage arrives, we’ll have to leave the ship by eleven o’clock. It’s seven now.

“Good, wake me in an hour before you want to leave.”

I scooted up on the bed and laid back. Trisha pulled the sheet over me.

Chapter 23

Capture

Several officers tried to locate Susan and the thieves. Larry received a vibration from his silenced phone. At the same time, they heard a crack echo in the metal lined cargo hold. A bullet whizzed by an officer to his left. They hunkered down behind some of the empty metal bins. Larry wished he had his gun, but his weapon was stored in one of these suitcases lining against the wall. Another officer had a pistol but refused to fire back without assurance of hitting a positive mark. Firing guns down in the cargo bay was just as bad as shooting one in an airplane fuselage.

A third officer waved them on while they could hear footsteps rapping against the floor tile from several people running away into the distance. Larry held back to check his phone.

He read Trisha’s message about the large woman and texted back a heart icon. An officer behind him turned on a ceiling light. Sitting on the floor by the suitcases, was a heavy-set woman in a blue taffeta gown.

“Help me, I was kidnapped,” she moaned, raising one arm toward them.

As the officer approached her to help her up, Larry hurried forward.

“Stay back. She might have a gun,” he yelled.

The officers had no time to retreat. She raised her other hand and took a shot. The midshipman fell when the bullet entered his leg. Larry and the other officer lunged to yank the wounded man away into the hallway. Another officer fired at the woman’s upraised hand, knocking the gun out of her reach.

“Good job,” Larry said to the firing officer.

She tried to reach across the floor for the errant pistol but Larry rushed over and knocked the weapon over by one of the pallets holding luggage.

“Let’s get her on her feet,” he said, gripping under her shoulder.

“Ow, not so rough,” she complained as one of the officers helped him.

Another crewman, wheeling full recycle bins onto the pier who had heard the first shot, came to help.

“Call the doctor,” shouted the officer, assisting Larry as they heft the woman to her feet. Larry reached down for the warm pistol as the officer sat her down on top of the stacked luggage. He picked the weapon up by the trigger guard and set it on a suitcase beyond the woman’s reach.

“How’s the officer?” he called, keeping his eye on the woman as she held her bloodied hand.

“The doctor is coming, flesh wound on his leg,” one of the officers said.

One of the men in uniform approached Larry.

“Mr. Paige, I’ll escort this lady to a holding room.

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