Hardcore Prawn (B-Books Book 1) by Jacob Rayne

Author:Jacob Rayne [Rayne, Jacob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-05T22:00:00+00:00

The answer wouldn’t greet him that day, or the next.

It would wait until he was back on duty.

He was in the car, flying down the freeway, when his comms unit blared: ‘Proceed to Crimson Cove.’

He pulled up to see a veritable sea of sirens and flashing lights.

‘What’s happenin’?’ he asked one of the other officers he saw there.

‘Not sure. But it can’t be good.’

Jim Darling was out for the afternoon surfing.

He needed the break, for his sanity.

His job was driving him up the wall.

He was not a people person, so working in a supermarket was his idea of hell, but there was no other career path open to him.

The time he spent on his board always served to make his life better.

His wife had suggested he come here for some chill out time.

He’d been coming a year or so and was getting pretty adept.

It was a perfect day for it; decent waves, sun, low wind.

He looked behind him, seeing the wave begin its charge.

Grinning – it looked big – he began to paddle.

The wave took him with it as it hit, and he popped up in perfect time.

He was always amazed when he managed to stand.

The wave continued to take him.

He seemed to be flying towards the beach.

It was a rush that never got old.

But then, as happened – although admittedly less and less these days – he went one way and his board went another.

Still grinning, he landed headfirst in the waves.

He bobbed back to the surface, seeing his board behind him.

He grabbed the leash around his ankle and pulled the board back to him.

Fighting to keep the board straight, he shoved the tip into the wave and began making his way back out.

When he reached roughly the point he’d been before, he jumped a few of the waves, keeping his board clasped to his side.

He waited for what looked like the perfect wave, then he spun round.

As he turned, he caught sight of a large black mass beneath the water, maybe ten feet out from him.

He squinted into the waves, trying to see what it was.

He hoped it wasn’t a shark. They were common around here.

His mate Mitch had actually lost a foot to a Great White a few years back.

He couldn’t see a fin, but the thing looked big.

He turned his board back to the beach, now impatient to catch the wave and get the hell out of there.

When he looked back, the dark mass had gone.

He breathed a sigh of relief.

Then the wave was on him.

Jim barely had time to react, but somehow, his muscle memory forced him to his feet.

He was unsteady, but this was a big wave, so adrenaline swamped him.

After roughly five feet, his board was wrenched from beneath him.

He landed hard in the waves, eyes still open.

Though it was blurred by the water, he caught a glimpse of something big and black and alien-looking in front of him.

His board seemed to be close to it.

He was stunned slightly from his impact with

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