Wake of the Sadico by Jo Sparkes

Author:Jo Sparkes [Sparkes, Jo]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Oscar Press
Published: 2019-08-07T16:00:00+00:00

Women. Mike clamped his mouth shut, because if he spoke, he’d annihilate Wall and his blonde bimbo.

She stood at the back, innocent as they always were. Late for dinner? Not their fault. Spent too much? Not their fault.

This one actually left a night dive to go play in an underwater cave. She stood there now, pretending she’d done nothing the fuck wrong…

At Jill’s scream he sprinted.

The mermaid sat on the pool ledge, dive gear piled behind and frozen rigid. Eyes riveted on a spot by her thigh.

Suppressing his grin, he advanced. Expecting to see a nearby gecko, as he knew she hated lizards. If it was a spider, he fully intended to squash…

He saw the snake and his gut twisted. Hearing steps behind, Mike gestured to halt.

“Don’t move, Jill,” he whispered sotto voce.

She sent him a furious look - of course she wasn’t going to move.

Mike eased around to his discarded gear, where his machete lay attached to his B.C.

“That’s a Fer-De-Lance,” Jon hissed.

“Didn’t figure it for the garden type.” Moving slowly, his fingers freed the latch, grasped the hilt. Slid his blade from its sheath. Positioned now behind the reptile, he needed three steps to reach it. Jesus, where the hell had that thing come from? In all his years here, he’d never seen any snake, much less one so deadly.

Easing closer, he slowed his step. The neoprene boots might protect his ankles, but if the thing struck higher… at least it wouldn’t strike Jill.

In reflex, he gestured for her to hold still. Her jaw clenched in answer. One thing about the mermaid - she had courage. Behind in some of the more feminine traits, she’d always had guts.

Mike crept within striking distance. Raising the blade, he hesitated. If he screwed this up…

“A snake,” Melanie spoke from the chamber entrance. Jill twitched, the serpent hissed. Mike swung.

Its severed head splashed into the pool.

He quickly speared the wiggling body, swinging it away from her, holding it high. Jon moved close to study the markings.

“Definitely a Fer-De-Lance,” he said. Confirming what Mike already knew. “South American. Never heard of them around here.”

“Poisonous?” Jill whispered.

“Big time,” Jon said.

Mike watched Jill hug her knees with shaking hands. Jon, like himself, thought of the mermaid as tough, strong. A younger version of themselves. But right now she needed a hug.

He gave his partner a nudge. Jon didn’t get the hint.

“Everybody lived,” Mike finally announced, tossing the carcass to the far side of the cavern. Squatting, he patted her shoulder before shoving his machete into the water to clean his blade.

“Bad luck to kill a snake,” Melanie said.

“Tell me,” he asked the cave at large. “Isn’t blonde hunting season somewhere between deer and quail?”

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