Water's Edge by G R Jordan

Author:G R Jordan [G R Jordan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: G R Jordan
Published: 2019-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Macleod rolled in the shallow water, fighting for purchase on the man. The brute was strong and Macleod took a knee in the side. Breaking the surface, he gasped before being hit on the shoulder. This broke the man free and Macleod fought the pain to scramble to his feet.

The girl was running down the path, following the path down the river. Two men were in pursuit, followed by Hope. Macleod ran out of the small garden and followed, his feet splodging as he made his way beside the water. The river fell into small pools of calm before tumbling down rocks but the path descended slowly, its gravelly surface occasionally failing to give purchase.

Macleod saw the girl scrambling out onto rocks, trying to cross the river. He was close now but Hope was closer and had caught up on one of the men in black. She grabbed him by the shoulder and Macleod saw him turn and catch Hope with an uppercut to the jaw. She rocked momentarily before grabbing the man and taking him to the ground.

Macleod arrived and thought about assisting but the other man in black was jumping across rocks out into the middle of the water, right behind the girl. Jumping onto a grass covered rock Macleod nearly fell but recovered to throw himself onto the next one. He was definitely getting too old for this but the spirit drove him on. And then he saw the knife brandished by the man. He had the girl by the shoulder and the knife was raised.

Flinging himself from the rock he stood on, Macleod leapt, stretching as far as possible and managed to get a hand on the man’s arm, causing him to tumble with Macleod into the river. The force of the river took hold and swept the two men over a small drop into an idle pool. Before he could react, Macleod felt two hands drive his head down into the water and his breath blew out in panic.

He placed two hands above him, finding the attackers hands but with no platform, he could not drive them off his head. He felt his strength waning and the panic beginning to fill his body. His hands now sought purchase on anything and he grabbed something in the dark of the water. It was a leg. He placed a second hand on the leg and understood the orientation of it. Without hesitation, he moved his hands up the leg and found the man’s genitals. Then he squeezed as hard as he could, his life depending on it.

The hands lifted from his head and he raced to the surface, desperate to grab some air. Gulping down the cool night, he saw his attacker climbing back out onto the side of the river. The knife was gone from his hands but he was moving back towards the girl’s location. She was now nearly across the body of water but the man seemed desperate as he reached the rocks that would carry him across again.

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