Mila yanked on it and it didn’t budge.Come on.She had little time.She glanced back towards the ocean but couldn’t see the wave any longer.
Quickly she moved around the other side and noticed vines tangled around it.She shoved at them but they didn’t budge.What she needed was a knife.
Her hand tapped her bag and she grinned.Her mother had given her a multi-tool when she’d joined the army reserves.She’d never used it but kept it in her bag.She fished it out of her soggy bag and flicked the knife open, sawing at the vines until they sprang open.
Finally she dragged the door free.It was too large to get it under her arm, so she grabbed one side and dragged it back up the road.
“Quiet,” Ethan called.
She smiled, relieved to hear his voice.“Be right there.”She couldn’t help the noise she was making.
The door got stuck on a few more things before she got it back to Ethan.She lay it next to him.
His eyes flickered open, and he removed the hat from his mouth.“Thanks, Angel.”He groaned.“I don’t feel so good.”
“We’ll get you on the door and I can drag you to the road so when your friends arrive you can ask them what took them so long.”
A question she wanted answered.Surely they would be back for him.
She heard a car engine and hope filled her.“That will be your friends now.I’m going to flag them down and I’ll be right back.”
She moved back to the road.
Hopefully one of them was a medic.
Because Ethan needed a lot of help.
Fast.
Chapter 4
“We’re clear!”Dobby yelled, staring out the back of the four-wheel drive at the dark wave of destruction, searching for the two people who had disappeared.
“The next wave might be bigger,” Axle called.“We’ll turn back and search for him when we get Vance to safety.”
“No one would have survived it.”Vance didn’t seem cut up that the woman he’d been planning to marry had been swept away.
Arsehole.
Tension gripped every muscle in Dobby’s body, but he couldn’t turn around and face the front.He scanned the water, looking for any signs of life, even though they kept getting further and further away.
Finally the car stopped.“Joker, you and Radar take Vance into the jungle.You should be safe from any waves there,” Axle said.
Dobby blinked and turned back.He should be giving the orders, but Axle was keeping his wits about him.Dobby nodded and the men got out.
“Don’t go.Agus might come after us,” Vance said.
“He’s tucked up in his house,” Dobby said.“He won’t leave until the danger is over.”
“Aren’t you all supposed to be protecting me?”Vance asked.
“One of our team is back there,” Dobby said.“You can either stay in the car and join us searching the village or get out and stay with Radar and Joker.”
Vance scooted over the seat and out the door.
Axle did a U-turn and Dobby sat in the middle of the back seat so he could see ahead.
Neither of them spoke as Axle tore back down the road, bumping over potholes.
