Jesus.
If he didn’t get an answer soon, he was going to lose his damn mind.
Clearly.
Michael shared the rest.
“I went in, and Graham saved me. He’s my hero,” he admitted. “Something grabbed me by the ankles and pulled me down to the bottom. I couldn’t get free. When I looked down, they appeared to be skeleton hands coming up from the muck and mire.”
Gabby gasped.
“Oh, my God! When I fell through, something was pulling me down. Finn had to save me. There is something in that lake!”
As they stood in the shadows, Finn was direct and to the point.
“I don’t like that lake, and I do believe I suggestedNOTgoing in it without backup. It’s dangerous, and someone is very angry.”
Well, Michael was aware, but he’d been sent there to do a job, and he’d planned on doing it.
“As I was in there, running out of air, I could hear talking.”
Ian was curious.
“Was it male or female?”
He considered the question.
“You know what? I can’t answer that. It didn’t sound like either. It was just a voice that echoed through the water. It said‘revenge’when I heard it above the water, and‘retribution’as I was drowning, and that’s all.”
Gabby gasped.
“I heard a voice, too, and it said the same thing. Now that I think about it, it wasn’t male or female. How is that possible?”
They had no idea.
His fiancée was staring at him, and Finn knew she was curious because he’d heard something too when he dove in.
“It just sounded dark to me when I was trying to save you, Gabs. I don’t think I gave it a thought when it came to gender. It was so weird to be hearing a voice, that I was only focused on that and saving you.”
Michael was to the point.
“I have to go back in. I only got a few of the bones. There are more down there.”
No one liked that idea.
“I think we should put that on the back burner,” Graham said, not wanting D’Artangnan to risk his life again by going into the water. That sounded incredibly dangerous. “We should go through this stuff first. Maybe it will give us a clue as to who is in the water.”
He had a point.
As they went back to going through the things, Michael kept his arm around Graham, proprietarily, and the man wasn’t complaining.
When he looked up at him, Michael grinned at him, and patted him on the ass.
God.
If this man left, he was going to disintegrate. There was no doubt about it in Graham’s mind.
Finally, Finn spoke.
