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I spun in the air, seeing my fellow teammates jump overboard, and just as I hit the water, the boat exploded, sending a wave of heat over my body. I swam further, dragging Sarah behind me as I tried to escape the flames. Once we were far enough away, I swam for the surface and pulled her up beside me.
“Are you okay?” I asked Sarah, trying to check her out for damage.
“I’m…” She nodded over and over again. She was clinging to me like a life raft, which was making it really hard to swim, but she was barely holding onto her shit right now. “You know…I’ve had worse. A bomb strapped to me. Being kidnapped and forced onto a plane. Nearly getting trafficked. Almost dying in a plane crash. Surviving a shark attack.” She nodded her head to the side. “It’s been a busy week.”
“Baby, that’s just been the last few days.”
“Right…I guess it’s been a slow day.” She grinned, but it was strained.
I was surprised she wasn’t panicking like the last time. “Do you need to do some breathing exercises or something?”
“No, I’m good.”
“You’re sure?”
She nodded again. “It could be worse, right? We could be that other ship.”
I looked behind me and saw the other ship sinking in the water. When the boat exploded, it must have damaged the cartel ship.
“Maybe we can find a life raft.”
“Or a…big twig to keep away the sharks.”
“I don’t know about a twig, but maybe a piece of driftwood.”
“Sure, that sounds better. Something larger and…” She started nodding over and over again. I had a bad feeling she was about to pass out. So, I did what any rational man would do. I kissed her hard. She gasped, at first panicking because of the shift of our bodies, but after a minute, she relaxed into me and kissed me back. Before I knew it, her arms were wrapped around my neck and she was practically crawling up my body.
“Whoa,” I broke away from her. “As fun as that sounds, I’m not sure this is the appropriate moment.”
“You mean, after we just almost died?” she panted.
“Right, well…when you put it like that.”
I was about to get right to it when splashing had me turning around.
“What the fuck was that?” Kavanaugh shouted, swimming closer to me.
“That was fucking IKE.”
He shook his head, his eyes wide with anger. “No, you could have fucking warned us. You just jumped overboard without a goddamn word.”
“The fact that I was jumping overboard should have clued you in,” I retorted, even though I knew he was right.
“Has anyone seen my hat?” Max shouted, swimming around the wreckage in search of his hat. “Goddamnit, I loved that hat!”
“Red!” I shouted when I didn’t see him.
“I’m good!” he yelled from his position. “Just some minor burns. Possible concussion. And I think I broke my pinky toe jumping overboard!”
“At least it wasn’t the big one,” I yelled back.
Fox came swimming over, a grin on his face. “Well, it wasn’t exactly how I planned it.”
“And how did you plan it?”
“Oh, we were going to draw them in for Rafe, disable their ship, then radio for Rafe to swoop in and take hostages.”
“And you planned to do all that without filling us in?”
