River of Desire: A Romantic Action Adventure/Thriller by Winn J. K

Author:Winn, J. K. [Winn, J. K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-01-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Dylan sensed Leah’s eyes following him while he finished dressing in the semi-darkness. Then he took a seat by her side on the bed to say his goodbye.

She wrapped her arms around him. “Are you sure you want to do this? If anything happens to you, I’ll never forgive myself.”

He ran his hand through her soft, flaxen hair, touched by her show of tenderness. “Nothing’s going to happen to me. I know the jungle. I’ll be back here in no time.”

She clung to him. If he had his way, she’d never let go, but the scrape of the door informed him of another’s presence. He pried himself away. “I have to leave.”

“I love you,” she whispered.

But he couldn’t bring himself to say what she wanted to hear. It would be too hard to leave her if he mouthed the words pressing at the back of his throat. Tears filled her luminous caramel-colored eyes and his gut twisted into a knot. He had to turn away.

The doctor cleared his throat. “Are you ready?”

Dylan moved toward the shadowy figure in the doorway. “Do you have the map?”

The old man reached a liver-spotted hand into his robe pocket and extracted two folded pieces of paper. “Here is map and letter of introduction for Doctor Von Schotten.” He extended the papers and Dylan pocketed them. “Do you have food enough?”

“For a few days in the boat.”

“Do you anything need?”

“I could sure use my gun.”

“I cannot to give you firearm. You could turn on me.” Kruger glanced over his shoulder at Kimo standing behind him with a rifle pointed at Dylan. He reached again into a pocket. “But you may your knife have back.”

A knife in this situation would be about as protective as a tin shield in a bomb blast, but what choice did he have? He took the knife, slid it into the empty sheaf on his belt. “I’m ready.”

Leah had come up beside him. She laid a hand on his arm. “Please be careful. I need you more than the vaccine.”

He could not give in to the desire to hold her, he might never be able to leave. “I’ll be back,” he said over his shoulder and strode out the door, refusing to respond to the stifled sob behind him. Outside, he swallowed the lump in his throat. He had always lost the ones he loved. He wouldn’t let that happen again.

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