The Devil's Own by Sandra Brown

Author:Sandra Brown [Brown, Sandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, General, Large Type Books, Action & Adventure, Orphans, Montenegro, Photographers
ISBN: 9781551667935
Google: xvSA284C_WUC
Amazon: 1551667932
Publisher: Mira
Published: 1987-01-01T13:00:00+00:00

Eight

Jenny Hendren had thoughtfully provided food. There were peanut butter sandwiches, oranges and apples, and homemade chocolate chip cookies. Cheese snacks and canned drinks had been kept in a portable cooler. As soon as their hunger had been appeased, most of the children dozed. All the seats had been temporarily removed from the Cessna executive plane, but there still wasn’t an abundance of space inside the fuselage.

"How is Joe?" Kerry asked Cage.

He was bending over the injured boy, checking the inadequate bandage he had placed over his thigh wound. "Still out."

"I’m glad you had that injection ready."

"So am I. He’d be in a helluva lot of pain without it. How is the other patient?"

"Ornery, bull-headed, obstinate." Immediately after her tears had dried, she and Linc had moved apart awkwardly. No longer tender and consoling, he’d reverted to being tough and abusive. "He wants to talk to you."

Cage moved over to where Linc was propped against the wall. He looked as disreputable as when Kerry had first met him. He was unshaven. His clothes were filthy and torn and blood-stained. Without the handkerchief sweatband around his forehead, he had to constantly keep pushing his hair away from his face.

"Kerry said you wanted to talk to me." Cage eased down beside the other man.

"You said something earlier about calling ahead to your wife." Cage nodded. "Do you think she could have a camera waiting for me when we land?"

"Linc had to throw his cameras in the river when we crossed it," Kerry explained. "We barely managed to save his film."

Cage, for all his reckless living in years past, looked back at them with surprise and respect. "Sounds as if the two of you had quite an adventure."

Kerry glanced uneasily at Linc. "Yes, we did. You see, the river – "

Cage held up both hands. "I want to hear all about it, but everyone else will, too. Why don’t you rest now, then tell it once for everybody?" Kerry smiled at him gratefully. "What kind of camera do you need, Linc?" he asked.

"Got a pencil?"

Cage jotted down the specifications as Linc ticked them off. "I’ll see what I can do." He inched toward the cockpit.

"Nice guy," Linc remarked, his eyes still on Cage.

Kerry laughed. "Not always, from what I hear."

"Oh?"

"As I told you, I met Jenny through the Hendren Foundation. She was engaged to Hal Hendren when he was j shot."

"Cage’s brother?"

"Yes."

"The missionary?"

"Right."

Linc shook his head. "I must have taken a blow on the head I don’t remember. Or is this as confusing as it sounds?"

"It is rather complicated. Jenny knew the brothers quite well. You see she grew up with them. The Hendrens adopted her when her parents were killed."

"So they were all one big, happy family?"

"Yes."

Linc’s eyebrows shot up and he grinned lecherously. "Sounds kinky to me."

"Hardly. They were reared in a parsonage. Cage’s father is a minister."

"Preacher’s kid, huh? No wonder I liked him immediately. Bet he’s a hell-raiser."

"Until Jenny got hold of him."

Even though Linc was bedraggled, his eyes sparkled.

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