The Demon Trappers: Foretold by Jana Oliver

The Demon Trappers: Foretold by Jana Oliver

Author:Jana Oliver [Oliver, Jana]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781447216087
Publisher: Macmillan Children’s Books


Chapter Twenty

Though Riley really wanted a nap on the way back, she was treated to a euphoric Beck who was surfing the I can’t believe I’m alive! wave.

‘This is the third time this swamp has tried to kill me,’ he announced, triumphant. ‘Still it’s a glorious place, isn’t it?’ He pointed towards the far bank. ‘I mean, look at those yellow flowers. They’re so pretty.’

They were pretty now that Riley wasn’t fearing for his life.

‘You know, maybe someday I’ll come back here and take a canoe through the place. Stay overnight at one of the shelters. You could come with me. Just the two of us.’

Riley wisely didn’t reply.

When the boat abruptly slowed, Riley woke to find herself covered in a blanket, her head on Beck’s lap. He was sound asleep and she nudged him awake.

She slowly sat up and then stretched, her muscles weighing in one by one. In the distance she could see the dock along with news vans and one familiar redhead. Justine. Somehow the alligators hadn’t eaten her.

Donovan and Simon’s boat docked first and quickly unloaded. Once Ray had pulled their boat up to the shore, the sheriff offered Beck a hand to help him out.

‘Best not to say what happened out there,’ he said in a lowered tone. ‘Don’t worry, your story will be heard.’

‘Just as long as it is.’ Beck hobbled up the concrete ramp, then stopped, eyeing the ambulance. ‘I’m guessin’ that’s for me.’

‘Sure is,’ the sheriff said. ‘Once you’re done at the hospital we’ll take your statement at the office.’ He looked back at Riley. ‘You can pick him up there in a few hours.’

‘Will do.’ That’d give her time to have a shower and maybe a longer nap. Then it’d just be the two of them. She wanted nothing more than for her and Beck to curl up together and the rest of the world to leave them alone.

‘Where ya been, Denny?’ someone called out. ‘Been playing with those dead boys’ bones?’

Beck bunched his fists but kept walking, the sheriff by his side.

A reporter got in their way. ‘Is he under arrest? Mr Beck, tell us what happened out there.’

Donovan pushed him aside. ‘No comment.’

By the time Riley reached the top of the ramp, the centre of everyone’s attention was in the back of the ambulance. Beck gave her a nod, then lay on the stretcher. The doors swung closed.

As if on cue, the crowd’s attention turned towards Riley. Two reporters were in her face and there was the constant click of camera shutters. To her surprise, Justine wasn’t in the fray, but stood some distance away, as if she was above such juvenile drama.

As Riley and Simon climbed into the pickup, questions flew, along with catcalls and ribald comments about what she and the wounded trapper had been doing in the swamp.

‘How can they say things like that?’ she demanded, slamming the passenger door.

‘Because they’re idiots.’ Simon made sure the truck spun sand and gravel out of the parking lot,



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