Total Meltdown by Elle James

Author:Elle James
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Twisted Page Inc

Chapter 8

As Tony climbed up the ladder to the helm, he looked out over the water and spotted another boat, turning around and heading back toward them. The boat wasn’t a pleasure boat, but one like the Navy SEALs might use on a commando raid.

His pulse leaping, Tony scrambled up the rest of the way to the top where Marcus stood cursing.

“What’s happening?” Tony demanded.

“That boat tried to ram us,” he said. “I was able to turn in time to miss them, but they’re coming back at us.” His jaw tightened, and his lips thinned. “And it looks like they have guns.” Marcus handed Tony a set of binoculars.

Tony lifted them to his eyes, focused on the oncoming boat and swore. “Madre de Dios!”

“They’re aiming for us,” Marcus said. “You might want to get down in the cabin and stay low.”

“I can’t leave you up here, exposed to the gunfire.” He jerked his thumb. “Go below. Now.”

“Can’t let you do that, boss.” Marcus shook his head. “You need to get down there and protect those kids of yours. I don’t have anyone depending on me. You do.”

“That doesn’t make your life any less important,” Tony argued.

“It does in my mind. Please,” he tossed over his shoulder. “They’re coming in range, and I need to perform some evasive maneuvers. I can’t do that with you hanging onto the ladder. Go!”

“Do you have any guns on board?”

“There’s a rifle in the cabinet over the scuba gear. You have to dig to the back. The rounds are in the pink fishing tackle box beside it.”

Tony scrambled down the ladder and dove into the cabin.

“What’s happening?” Lily asked.

Tony didn’t want to say anything to frighten the children. “There’s a situation. We’re handling it. The best thing you can do is keep yourself and the children as low as possible.” He turned to the deckhands and repeated the instructions in Spanish.

The young men nodded and hunkered low on the floor.

While Mari slept and Robbie clutched Lily’s arm, Tony dug through the cabinet over the scuba gear until his hand closed around the rifle hidden at the back. He found the pink tackle box and pulled out a box of bullets. When he brought the rifle out of the cabinet, a collective gasp sounded from the deckhands and Lily.

“Just how bad is the situation?” Lily asked, her face pale and her eyes wide and worried.

“Marcus is working on outrunning it.” He tilted his head toward the rifle. “This is just in case.”

“Do you know how to use it?” Lily asked.

He nodded. “I’m quite proficient.”

“Just keep in mind, you’re needed,” she said and mouthed the word alive.

“Understood.” Tony left the cabin and found a position on the portside of the boat near the stern, staying low and out of sight of the other craft skimming across the water toward them, a machine gun mounted on a turret, aiming toward the Lost Cause. Tony prayed the boat didn’t live up to its name that day.

The future of his small children, the captain and the passengers depended on the boat making it back to port safely.

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