Claimed by Her Alpha by Alex Anders

Author:Alex Anders [Anders, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00JXNCCPQ
Publisher: RateABull Publishing
Published: 2014-04-24T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

When Saki woke up, she was starved. Reaching back for Lane, she found him gone. She spotted him at the back of the boat with his phone in hand. The first of the morning light glowed behind him like an aura, and the light from his phone lit his face like he was in a painting.

“Where are we?” Saki asked in a scratchy morning voice.

“Not too far from the southern tip of Andros. We could still make it.”

Saki wanted to be excited, but she couldn’t escape the hunger pangs she felt. When her stomach growled loudly, Lane looked back.

“Let’s get something to eat. It’s going to be a long day. We need to keep our strength up.”

She wasn’t sure why she had to keep up her strength, but certainly, he needed to keep up his. The only chance they had of survival was him fixing the engine, and he couldn’t do that if his eyes blurred with hunger.

The half of corned beef sandwich that they both enjoyed wasn’t much. It almost made them hungrier than before they ate it. But it did clear their minds. So once the sun provided enough light for Lane to look down into the engine, he began again.

Today, he asked for her help more often. Parts of the engine took two people to lift, and by midday, the engine head was completely torn apart.

“Okay, I think I see it. The filter I was talking about is in there,” he said, pointing to a metal box with tubes running from it. Lane hesitated.

“So, what are you looking to find?”

“Well, if I’m right then when I open that, there will be dirt in there blocking the gas.”

“And if there isn’t?”

“Then…” The expression on Lane‘s face drooped. He swallowed with nervousness and instead of answering, reached for the metal box.

Saki felt like crying again. She had an awful feeling in her chest, and she was beginning to find it hard to breathe.

Lane reached into the engine and retrieved the metal box. Four screws held it together. He quickly released them, removing the lid.

Saki wasn’t sure what she was looking at. It held two things that bounced around like tonsils. She couldn’t see anything that looked like a filter at all. Lane rotated it in search of the same. It wasn’t there. Saki‘s heart dropped.

“I… I was sure it was here. I don’t understand.”

Saki fell onto her knees next to Lane. She stared at the box that he still twirled in his hand. Wilting under the midday tropical sun, her head drooped. Almost by instinct, she picked up the lid of the metal box and flipped it over.

“Wait, is that it?” She said, pointing to netting on the inside top of the metal lid.

Lane quickly took it from her and held it up to his face for a better look.

“I think so,” he said with mounting excitement. “I think that’s the filter.”

Using his flathead screwdriver, he pried the filter from its housing. When he did, the thumb-sized instrument fell into his palm.

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