Mayhem's Hero: Operation Mayhem by Lindsay Cross

Author:Lindsay Cross [Cross, Lindsay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cypress Bend Publishing, LLC
Published: 2017-11-15T16:00:00+00:00

Audra didn’t bother trying to hold in her shaking now. She heard the sound of the bullets plinking into the water near them. Another one flew and she winced, hugging as tight to Diggs as she could, ducking her body beneath the surface. Her vision blurred and her head started pounding harder, so hard she wanted to vomit but she kept her lips shoved together unwilling to let the bile rise. She knew she just had to stay with Diggs until they got away. Diggs would save them. He would.

Diggs kicked and propelled them faster. She couldn’t imagine what kind of strain it must be dragging her and Trigger through the murky water. Flat on her back, she did her best to stare at the cloudy sky overhead, making herself as small and unobtrusive as possible, even while pain pounded through her temples.

Then the clouds suddenly parted, the bright blast of a full moon painting them in pale light. Audra sucked in a breath and Diggs cursed. A burst of bullets sprayed the water in a wide arc, drawing up droplets on their faces, but still managing to miss them somehow.

“Almost there.”

Audra dropped her chin, like she was watching a horror movie with morbid fascination, searching for the man shooting at them. Three stood at the edge of the lake. Dear Lord, she wished she hadn’t looked now. “There’s three of them, Diggs.”

“Don’t look at them. Focus on me. I’ve almost got us around the corner.” More bullets. She had a death grip on his pack.

“I trust you.” The words slipped past her numb lips without thought, and she instantly knew they were true. For whatever reason, she did trust Diggs.

When they finally made it around the corner, the barrage of bullets didn’t stop, but they were growing farther and farther away. Relief leeched what little strength she had left in her muscles.

“I can’t see them anymore.”

“Audra, on me. Focus on me.”

And she did. She latched her gaze onto the back of his wet dark hair, marveling at the way he swam through the water like a predator. Trigger was as still as ever, even his breathing quiet.

The bank on the opposite shore seemed miles away and chock-full of thick grass and weeds, a few spots bare and slick, like the mud had been carved out in the shape of a slide.

“Alligator slides.” Diggs said as if he were reading her mind.

Audra’s stomach dropped. “Alligators?”

“Better than what’s waiting for us on the other shore. Hang on to me. I’ll get you across.”

Audra wisely kept her mouth shut, even as she wondered if Diggs was strong enough to fight off a full-grown gator.

He’d have to be since they weren’t turning around.

He kept swimming and she tried to hold on with all her might, even as he neared the very slides he’d pointed out earlier. “Diggs, shouldn’t you be swimming away from that spot?”

“Do you see the side where the thick undergrowth thins out and there’s nothing but trees?”

“Yes.” It was absolutely perfect for a landing spot in her mind.

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