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Eilean Bàs (Death Isle)
Killers don't fall in love...
Kirsten thought her life was over when
she met Mac, ‘the Jeweller’, a government sanctioned dispatcher.
Instead it was just beginning.
Admittedly, being kidnapped, tied up, and
tortured with sexual pleasure might not have been the best beginning for a
relationship, but their instant connection cannot be denied.
There is only the not so small matter of
Mac’s job to consider.
He cannot possibly condemn Kirsten to a
life lived in the shadows, because there would never be a chance off escape.
The choice is hers to make.
Fantastic cover courtesy of the amazing Jay Aheer
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“Fuck it, who’s there?” Mac
snarled and rubbed his cock absently, as he remembered the asshole’s last words
of ‘watch your backs, they’ll get you somehow. None of you are safe.’
“Speak or sod off and I’ll go back to what I
was doing.”
“Mac, sorry but I need you.”
That was Milo, the third member of the committee who controlled the island,
damn him. Was the asshole’s prophecy coming true? Mac had the uneasy feeling
that Milo wouldn’t have called him unless he really had to. He knew Mac was
tired, and no doubt randy and had a hot date with his imagination.
“Fuck off unless the island is
sinking. I’m in the middle of a cock-hardening wet dream about a blonde German
erotica author who’s on her knees in front of me and saying she’s mine all mine.”
Milo’s laugh was tinged with
more than a little sympathy. “If it’s who I think it is she’s collared and happily
married.”
“So? A man can dream, can’t he?
Ah hell, now she’s got up and stalked away. Bratty sub.” Mac sighed and kicked
the covers off him. Somewhat damp covers and it wasn’t just sweat on them.
Well it had been a fucking arousing dream.
“Okay” he said, resigned to
not getting his rocks off or getting any sleep. “What do you want me to do?”
Half an hour later, dressed in
black and with his face camouflaged Mac stood next to Milo and pointed to the security
screen in front of them. “So, two somethings that shouldn’t be there. Any clue
what?”
Milo shrugged and blackened his own face. “Nope,
but they were not far from the bay on the mainland when I saw them. Now they’re
getting too close for comfort, so we need to sort them. Which one do you want?”
Mac shrugged. “Makes no difference,
does it? I’ll be pissed off whichever one I get my hands on. That was a fucking
arousing dream I was in. My cock feels deprived and ready for retribution. God help
whoever I catch. The mood I’m in I’d fuck whatever I found, be it male or
female. Bugger it. I’m on your left so I’ll go for the one on the left. Who I
reckon is heading towards Graveyard Bay so that’ll do for a starting point.
Mind you,” he grumbled more because he could than he needed to. Work was work
whatever time of the day or night. “The bloody fog is gonna make it difficult.”
Milo swatted him on the back. ‘Not for you, oh
eagle-eyes. Okay, you go for lefty there and I’ll go see what the other thing
is.”
Mac nodded. “I’ll check the
security cameras on the island while I’m at it.”
Five minutes later he left
Milo and the boathouse and silently paddled his canoe out from its hidey-hole
at the south of the island toward Graveyard Bay. So named because of its eerie
skeleton of trees and rocks that looked like headstones.
If whoever it was were intent
on reaching Eilean Bàs—Dark Isle in English— undetected they would have been better
to choose a night where the wind and waves were up. They’d be a lot more likely
to go undetected then. He chuckled as an errant gust of wind rippled the water.
And probably drown but then that would be doing everyone a favor.
Mac moved swiftly in his craft of
choice. Low, quiet and fast, it worked for him over and above any of the other
vessels he had at his disposal. At least in the mist-rapidly-turning-to-fog there
would be little likelihood of other boats around, especially at night. The loch
might look pretty and tranquil to the tourist who sat on the shores and ate ice
creams or threw sticks for their dog, with only a sightseeing steamer or two
and the occasional pleasure craft to disturb the peace, but those in the know
understood its secrets and undercurrents.
Mac was one of them. He paddled
silently as he strained to hear any sound other than his breathing. A heron
flew somewhere above him in the gloom, the only indication of its presence the
slow flap of its wings. A duck quacked and he lifted the paddle to drift and
listen. Another quack answered and Mac was satisfied it really was waterfowl
and not a human imitation. He moved on slowly searching for something that
shouldn’t be there.
Where was that damned blob? What was it?
Shit, he needed a smoke.
Godalmighty, what was he thinking?
He gave it up years ago.
~~~~If you enjoyed this #MidWeekTease and would like to read more, The Jeweler, by Kera Faire, will be out on Wednesday 29th June from Evernight Publishing ~here~ That's today if you're reading this on #MidWeekTease day...Excited is me...
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love R x
