Page 96
Story: The Wolf of My Eye
“Pull up anchor!” Robert shouted to William, who was hauling his up right away, just like Robert was trying to.
Everyone had their life jackets on, but if the boat hit one of theirs, it could seriously injure them. That’s when Maisie thought of Jack and how he must have used a boat to dump Gus’s body. God, had he been tracking William’s movements all this time, just waiting for the right moment to go after him?
William had posted about fishing with Chelsea, and the cliffs in the picture showed just where they were. “It’s probably Jack,” Maisie said. She got on her phone while Robert started the boat’s motor and got them underway. “Grant, we’ve got trouble.”
“Enrick told me you’re fishing with Robert. What happened this time?” Grant asked.
“We have a boat headed straight for us. I’m sure he’s afterWilliam and Chelsea. But he’ll want to take us out too, most likely, so there aren’t any witnesses.”
“Jack?”
“I can’t make him out, but that’s whom I suspect. He’s not slowing down, and he’s gaining on us.”
“Hell, it will take us time to launch a couple more boats, but we’ll do it. Just try to get close to our beach.”
“We’re headed that way now.” But Maisie knew they weren’t going to make it to shore before the faster, larger boat was upon them.
Chapter 26
Robert couldn’t believe that Jack would be barreling down on them with his motorboat—he wasn’t sure how fast it could go, but he was coming in hot. It looked like it would close in on them before they could outrun him. “We’re going to separate from you guys and turn,” Robert shouted to William.
“He’s going to go after Chelsea and William,” Maisie warned.
“Aye, and we’re going to make a turn and toss the extra towrope, anchor, fishing line, everything we’ve got to try to wrap around his propellers,” Robert said.
She picked up the flare gun. “What about this?”
“We’ll use that as a last resort. Can you switch places with me?”
“Aye.”
William pulled the same maneuver, making a sweep to the left instead. As soon as the motorboat followed him, Maisie had switched places and was driving her and Robert’s boat as close as she could get to Jack’s before it passed them by. Robert tossed the extra length of towrope, fishing net, and fishing lines at the motorboat. They were right near thepropeller, but he was afraid they hadn’t caught. Then suddenly, they heard a grinding noise, and some of the items, if not all of them, were tangled around the prop.
Jack was cursing a blue streak as his boat went idle in the water.
Robert and Maisie couldn’t see William’s boat until they headed back toward the beach, getting out of reach of Jack’s wrath, in case Jack decided to shoot at them with a flare gun or rifle if he had one on him.
“What are you going to do?” Maisie asked Robert.
“Take him into custody.”
“How?”
“Get closer to his boat. I’ll use the transom to climb aboard. Then you head to the beach.”
“No, Robert. He could shoot you as soon as you get on his boat.”
But Robert had to stop him. He was afraid that the bastard would flee somehow and they would still have the issue of William and Chelsea’s safety.
Despite Maisie’s objection, she apparently trusted Robert enough to do this and he trusted her to get him close enough to Jack’s vessel. He leapt onto the transom, made it into the boat, and saw Jack with his hands on his head, watching Chelsea and William get away. He was so shook up that his prey had evaded him that he seemed to have forgotten that another boat was still out there with Robert and Maisie on it.
Robert stripped off his clothes and shifted into his wolf, not having the luxury of time or any other way to sneak up on Jack. Robert sprinted to take Jack down, and in thatinstant, Jack turned and saw him.
“What the hell?”
Yeah, always watch your back with wolves. Especially when the hunter with murder on his mind was now the prey.
***
Table of Contents
- Page 1
- Page 2
- Page 3
- Page 4
- Page 5
- Page 6
- Page 7
- Page 8
- Page 9
- Page 10
- Page 11
- Page 12
- Page 13
- Page 14
- Page 15
- Page 16
- Page 17
- Page 18
- Page 19
- Page 20
- Page 21
- Page 22
- Page 23
- Page 24
- Page 25
- Page 26
- Page 27
- Page 28
- Page 29
- Page 30
- Page 31
- Page 32
- Page 33
- Page 34
- Page 35
- Page 36
- Page 37
- Page 38
- Page 39
- Page 40
- Page 41
- Page 42
- Page 43
- Page 44
- Page 45
- Page 46
- Page 47
- Page 48
- Page 49
- Page 50
- Page 51
- Page 52
- Page 53
- Page 54
- Page 55
- Page 56
- Page 57
- Page 58
- Page 59
- Page 60
- Page 61
- Page 62
- Page 63
- Page 64
- Page 65
- Page 66
- Page 67
- Page 68
- Page 69
- Page 70
- Page 71
- Page 72
- Page 73
- Page 74
- Page 75
- Page 76
- Page 77
- Page 78
- Page 79
- Page 80
- Page 81
- Page 82
- Page 83
- Page 84
- Page 85
- Page 86
- Page 87
- Page 88
- Page 89
- Page 90
- Page 91
- Page 92
- Page 93
- Page 94
- Page 95
- Page 96 (Reading here)
- Page 97
- Page 98
- Page 99
- Page 100