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I sat there in silence and shame. I couldn’t believe I’d just told him my greatest weakness. What would everyone think of me? How would I ever get back to who I was? My whole life was defined by the shadows I walked through. Was I just supposed to be happy now? That was no way to live.
“Maybe I could help you,” FNG spoke up. “You know I can’t die. Maybe you could electrocute me and work out your frustrations on me.”
“Nah,” I shook my head. “I couldn’t do that to you.”
“But you’re not. I’m refusing to tell you what you want to know. The only way to deal with a witness is to make them talk.”
I shoved out of my chair and turned my back on him. “It’s a nice offer, but I couldn’t take you up on it.”
“Then I guess you’ll never know who the suit really is.”
I glanced over my shoulder, narrowing my eyes at FNG. “Are you saying you’re refusing to tell me the information you know about the man that you were spying on?”
“Exactly. It’s classified. I could be tortured and killed if I gave up that information.”
A slow smile spread across my face as I walked over to the cables on the ground by the metal pool. I picked one up and tossed it in the water, then grabbed the other end and placed my hand on the knob that controlled the voltage.
“Who is this man and why did you marry his daughter? What did you get out of it?”
“I can’t tell you,” FNG said, his lips forming a smile. “You’ll have to make me talk.”
I cranked up the voltage and strolled over to the pool. “You asked for it.”
37
FNG
Somewhere in the ocean.
29 days, 2 hours, 32 minutes, and 16 seconds since boarding the ship with the pirates.
The water carriedme for miles. As I stared up into the cloud-covered sky, I wondered just how long I would have to float out here until someone found me. I’d been drifting on my back since yesterday, turning over every once in a while to get my bearings. But it was the same every time. Miles and miles of ocean with no one in sight.
I shouldn’t have been surprised when those guys double-crossed me. It was to be expected with villains like that. Still, I did get them through a raging storm that threatened to sink our ship. At least I had it better than the captain. The poor bastard was bludgeoned to death in the middle of the night. Had I known it was going to happen, I would have tried to stop it.
There were a lot of things I wished I could stop over the course of the past month. Had I never taken this job with Rafe, I might be at home right now, snug in my bed. Instead, I was without weapons, without friends, and without a boat to take me home. Hell, I’d take a dingy right now if it meant that I could stop floating aimlessly around the ocean.
A sound in the distance caught my attention. It was probably nothing, much like the imaginary ship I envisioned a few hours ago or the sound of a horn a few hours before that. Being alone in the middle of nowhere did crazy things to your mind.
Still, I sat upright and doggy-paddled as I peered into the distance for any sign of life. I kept spinning in a circle until I had gone three hundred and sixty degrees. Disappointment shot through me, but then I thought I saw a flash of some kind in the distance. It might be nothing, but if it was another ship, I didn’t want to miss my chance.
I started swimming, using all the energy I had left to get to that distant spot before it disappeared. My arms were heavy and my stomach growled and pinched in hunger, but I kept pushing on. Salvation was just a short distance away. I started laughing as I saw the yacht getting closer and closer. With any luck, I’d be feasting on a great meal in just another hour.
“Man overboard!” I heard someone shout.
I started waving my hands, even though the man had already seen me. But my smile soon slipped from my face as he pulled out a rifle and pointed it in my direction. I had a feeling I would be sleeping with the fishes a lot sooner than expected.
“Who are you?” the man shouted. “Identify yourself!”
“Uh…my name is FNG!” I shouted in return.
“What are you doing out here?”
That was a story that I didn’t want to get into while floating around out here. “I was sort of…displaced from my ship.”
I thought my eyes were deceiving me because a woman dressed in only a small, white bikini appeared beside the man. She was a vision of beauty with tanned skin and sleek, black hair. I was in awe of her. So much that I slipped beneath the water when I forgot to keep swimming. I came up spluttering, internally grinning when just moments later the woman winked at me. The man threw me a life preserver, then pulled me in.
“Thank you,” I said as I climbed aboard.
