Tactical Rescue by Maggie K. Black

Author:Maggie K. Black [Black, Maggie K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-04-30T22:00:00+00:00

TEN

Zack’s arms tightened around Rebecca, and he braced himself around her as he felt his body smash hard into the ceiling of the camper. Then they were flying through the air again. Tossed from ceiling, to walls, to floor as the camper rolled, like Ping-Pong balls in a dryer. Her belongings smacked into him like shrapnel. There was the sound of metal screeching, things breaking. He closed his eyes and bowed his head, feeling her inside his arms.

Lord, we need You now.

There was a shudder and the sound of water crashing around them. The camper stopped rolling. Freezing water roared around them and seeped through the cracks around the windows. The camper turned and twisted beneath them.

He looked up.

The camper had landed on its side in a river. His feet were still bound.

The sky was growing light around them as the sun began to rise. Rebecca slipped from his arms and curled beside him on the floor. “I’m okay. You okay?”

“Yeah.”

“Thank God,” she prayed.

“Amen.”

But the camper was sinking. Water seemed to be seeping in from all directions. The camper spun, tossed by the current. The door hung open above them. He sloshed around in the water, feeling for something sharp to free his legs with. Rebecca tried to stand up, but lost her footing and fell back into the water.

“Untie my hands, please.” Even on her knees the water was up to her stomach.

Her hair fell wet and loose around her face. Golden light of the rising sun illuminated her face. Her eyes looked up into his, silently begging him for help. But it wasn’t the same desperate, pleading look he’d seen countless times before from people waiting on him to save them and be their hero.

No, Rebecca wasn’t begging him for rescue. Instead, she fixed his face with a calm, steady gaze that seemed to say, Please, Zack, don’t let me down.

“Hang on.” His fingers grabbed a kitchen knife. Not as sharp as he’d have liked but far better than nothing. He slid it into the hole he’d already cut in the tape surrounding his feet and started hacking. “We don’t have much time and I can’t swim out of here without my feet. But I can carry you and drag you to the surface if I need to.”

Something flashed in her eyes. Disappointment? Frustration? But whatever it was, within a second a flash of determination had wiped it from her face. Then as he watched, she leaned backward, braced her still-bound wrists against the sideways edge of what remained of her counter and pushed herself to her feet.

“We’re not going to have a lot of time to grab things,” she said. “Your bag is over by the bunk. There’s a waterproof emergency kit under the counter with bottled water, a first-aid kit and a few other essentials. I don’t see the laptop anywhere. I just wish we had time to save my computer and video files.”

The fact she wasn’t arguing with him bothered him. He didn’t hear trust in her voice.

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