The Naked Dead by Joe Janowicz

Author:Joe Janowicz [Janowicz, Joe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: NewField Publications
Published: 2019-12-06T22:00:00+00:00

chapter 23

“Well, other than the fact that they have the image of Popeye on them, it’s the best I could find in my purse.” Jamie surveyed all the colorful children’s band-aids she had placed in different positions on his wounds. “Got them as a joke gift. Never knew when I would need them. Hmmm.”

Returning to their resort bedroom, Jamie immediately attended to McKenna’s cuts from the assailant’s long fingernails. At the pool, she had picked up the towel that the attacked woman had left on the ground and used it as a compress to stop some of his bleeding until they returned to the room. The wounds weren’t deep enough, or wide enough, to require stitching, and putting a lot of band-aids on him was the first logical solution. Unfortunately, if left on the way they were, they would certainly make him look a bit odd, if not conspicuous, especially without any clothing.

“Well, they don’t exactly match the rest of your current outfit, so let’s try Plan B,” Jamie decided.

“Ouch.” McKenna winced as Jamie quickly pulled off one of the many band-aids she had placed on McKenna’s bare shoulders, followed by removing five more.

A dab or two or her foundation makeup hid the cuts for the most part.

“Not bad,” Jamie said out loud, while nodding to herself after her medical and cosmetic care.

“The makeup covers them up pretty well. But be careful of water. The makeup will come off if you go skinny dipping.”

The reference to “skinny dipping” made him smile, as did she. Through most of the time she spent cleaning up his wounds and their walk back from the pool, he had been fairly quiet. He did tell her he had a lot to share with her but needed a few minutes to get his head and strength back together. The struggle in the water, and his coming back from Neptune’s graveyard, had left McKenna exhausted. But he was feeling better with each passing moment.

“I can’t believe he got away.”

“I can’t believe he almost drowned you,” Jamie responded with a slight frown.

He let out a deep sigh.

“He was extremely strong. Actually, remarkably strong. And…”

McKenna hesitated, clearing his thoughts to make sure he had all of the “water out of his head” and was really prepared to say what he had to, and he did.

“He had fangs.”

“What?” Jamie exclaimed.

“Fangs, like in long, sharp teeth,” McKenna replied as a matter of fact, as if explaining the word to her.

“I know what fangs are. That’s not why I was surprised, although I am by what you’re telling me.”

She cocked her head as if it was her turn to clear her thoughts and make sure she didn’t have any “water on the brain” to cloud what she had to say.

“Jeff was attacked by a woman with fangs, too.”

“What?” It was now McKenna’s turn to show surprise.

Jamie repeated Tina’s description of what she saw and then Jeff’s arrival and his defense, and explained to McKenna why she didn’t follow him immediately to the altercation at the pool.

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