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There had to be something. It was my job to save Indiana.
Think! Fucking think!
A guttural cry of twisting metal carved through the chaos and the tilting deck made it fucking clear we were running out of time.
I sprinted into the hut. Indiana stood next to the shredded kitchen cupboards, and her breasts heaved beneath her bikini top as she sucked in air.
The beeping hard drive was like a countdown to our imminent demise.
“What do we do?” Her terrified expression tore out my heart.
“I’m working on it.” I yanked open the kitchen cupboards, and the door crumbled into chunks in my hand.
“What are you looking for?” she yelled.
“I don’t know yet.” I yanked open another cupboard beneath the bench and swept out pots and pans and a broken scuba mask. The wetsuit was suffocating me, but I didn’t have time to take it off. I was going to need it again soon anyway. No way was I jumping overboard without some protection. Sweat streamed down my face, mingling with the soot that smeared my skin.
A fire extinguisher.
“Yes!” I tugged it from the back of the cupboard.
Indiana’s wide eyes filled with hopelessness. “It’s too late, Tyler. We can’t save Rhino.”
Bullets thumped into the rear of the hut.
“Get down.” I dropped the extinguisher and dove onto Indiana. We crashed onto the coffee grounds all over the floor.
The bullets were erratic, convincing me that whoever was driving that thing no longer had full control over its weapon or its flight ability. Its vision may not be obstructed, though. We needed them to think we went down with the ship.
“You okay?” I asked.
Her face was smeared with soot, and her chest heaved. “No. That fucking thing is pissing me off.”
I pushed up from her, and my gaze snagged on the broken mask. “Our scuba gear!”
I stood and helped her up.
“What about it?” Her voice trembled like the deck beneath our feet.
“We have no choice but to get off your boat, right?”
The floor beneath us jolted into a treacherous slant. Indiana stumbled, but I caught her arm, steadying us both. Rhino wailed, and with a giant crack, the back wall of the hut split in two, allowing the final rays of the setting sun to spear into the hut.
I gripped Indiana’s wrist, pulling her gaze to me.
“We need whoever is driving that drone to think we’re dead. So, we’ll get the scuba gear, and hopefully, without the drone seeing us, we’ll jump overboard. Okay?” I said with conviction that I didn’t feel.
“Okay. Yes.” Her amber eyes grew hard with determination.
“Good. We need to move fast before the equipment room goes under.” My words were clipped as if the weight of our time restraint pressed on my throat.
Indiana’s gaze locked with mine, and I could see her mind turning.
“Let’s go.” I grabbed the fire extinguisher, hoping I didn’t need to fight that fire to get our scuba gear. Or worse, that the scuba tanks weren’t destroyed in those explosions we heard.
The beeping hard drive pierced my brain as if the asshole behind the drone was daring us to defy him.
I marched to my backpack and pulled out the device. “I’m not leaving without this.”
