Enduring Charity by Wayne Stinnett

Author:Wayne Stinnett [Stinnett, Wayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wayne Stinnett
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Watching the activity on the two boats below her, Charity gasped as the man in the back moved suddenly. She saw Andrew and Tony fire at the same time, and the man went down.

Tony stepped over to the boat to restrain the woman. The second man was nowhere to be seen. When Andrew waved Charity off, she moved the helo fifty yards away, adjusting the powerful spotlight to keep the two boats in its circle of illumination.

A moment later, Tony took something from his pocket and held it to the side of his head. Her sat-phone rang through her headset, startling her. This wasn’t the outcome she’d envisioned.

She touched the Accept button. “Why did you shoot him?”

“Couldn’t be helped,” Tony replied urgently, shouting to be heard over the buffeting wind the chopper was making. “He started to draw a gun on us.”

“What kind of gun? One of Victor’s was missing.”

“A Kimber 1911. What do you want to do with the woman?”

“They stole it from Victor,” Charity replied. What do we do with her? she thought.

“Another boat is approaching, Charity,” Tony said. “Coming out of Biscayne Bay and headed this way very fast.”

Charity looked to the west but could only see the glow of lights from the city. She shook off what had just happened. “Feel like going for a ride, Tony?”

“Bring her down,” he replied. “I’ll move the woman to the casting deck of Andrew’s boat.”

She ended the call and moved the bird into position just in front of the sleek-looking center-console. The Huey’s rotors were more than fourteen feet above its skids, so there was no real danger in the maneuver; the trick was in the weight transfer. When someone steps off the boat onto the skids, the boat will rise slightly and the helo will drop, due to the extra weight. It was something she’d done many times before, though.

Standing on the raised foredeck, Tony waited, letting his knees absorb the up-and-down movement of the boat while his torso remained motionless. Andrew stood on the lower part of the deck, guiding Charity closer with hand signals. When she was in position, Tony timed the rise and fall of the boat then stepped up onto the skid and slid the big cargo door open.

Charity adjusted for the additional weight and kept her bird in position, as Andrew lifted the small woman bodily and held her up for Tony to drag inside. Then she moved the chopper away from the two boats.

Andrew spent less than a minute looking through the Cigarette’s cabin. When he returned to the foredeck, he had the suitcase Charity had seen the man carrying when he and the woman went to Chapman’s dock.

Charity eased the helo back into position and Andrew handed the luggage up to Tony. She could barely hear the exchange of shouted words between the two, then the cargo door closed.

A moment later, Tony stepped into the cockpit and removed her bags from the right seat, taking their place. He quickly donned the headphones hanging on the dash, adjusting the mic boom.

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