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now.”
Afraid as she was, she looked almost relieved. Apparently, she’d rather go with them, monsters she was a little familiar with, than face down monsters she didn’t know.
He supposed he couldn’t blame her.
Chapter Five
“They’ve had two incidences off the coast of South America. There’s been casualties,” Freda said to Dr. Wagner, getting off the phone.
“Us or them?” he asked, looking up from the computer on his desk.
“Us,” she said.
Dr. Wagner sighed in disgust and closed his laptop. “Imbeciles. Did they bring the tipped bullets like they were supposed to?”
“Everyone’s using them. They aren’t working anymore. They’re healing too fast for them to be effective. The silver tipping only slows them down.”
“Dammit. I didn’t foresee this happening. I thought we had the method of execution right. They need to come back and get the tranquilizers. It worked on the cats, it should work on them. Tranquilize the subjects, shoot them in the head, and burn the bodies to get rid of the evidence. It’s the only way to kill them. Have any locals been infected?”
“Not that we know of, but it’s too early to tell yet,” Freda said.
“Get in contact with the Captain. Make sure the locals think it’s chupacabra and not something else. They must be heading down the coast and moving faster than we anticipated.”
“Agreed. I’ll call the captain and get them to return for tranquilizers.”
***
“Come on. We’ve got to rescue the bags and get some clothes on. We can’t stay here like this. It’s too dangerous to be seen,” Zach said, leading them back into the jungle. “Try and keep up.”
When she saw how close they’d been to where they rescued her, she looked at them with surprise on her face. “Were you guys following me?”
Zach shrugged. “We wanted to make sure you got home okay and didn’t get hurt by anyone. I guess it’s a good thing we did or things would be different right now.”
It didn’t take long for them to recover the bags and get dressed. As bright as dawn had made the beach, inside the jungle it was a completely different story.
Spattering light made it difficult to see anything clearly. The scrape and jab of bushes tore at her already ragged clothing and snatched at her bare arms and face.
She resisted the urge to complain, knowing they’d only reluctantly agreed to take her with them. She wasn’t going to give them an excuse to regret their decision.
Still, she couldn’t help but react to every insect biting and sucking her blood. Every vine looked like a snake. Every broken limb or floating leaf she was sure was something horrible out to get her. She knew enough from school and television to know that the jungle was not a place she wanted to be. They had every sort of deadly spider, frog, snake, and scorpion imaginable plus then some.
Jasmine didn’t want to admit to anyone that she was spooked by the wildness of the jungle, but after being attacked on the beach, her nerves were on edge. There was only so much a woman could take before having a nervous breakdown.
She was proud of herself for handling an unbelievable situation as well as she had. To think that the men she found herself first kidnapped by, freed, and then rescued by weren’t completely human?
It was a hard pill to swallow. If she hadn’t seen it with her own eyes she would have thought she’d lost her damned mind.
She was pretty close to thinking she had anyway because of her willingness to go with them into the jungle, but she didn’t have many options available to her.
They were on the run and she knew it. They didn’t have time for her to act like a frightened baby screaming at everything. So she bit her tongue and ran after them and tried to keep up with them as well as she could.
Heavy vines and limbs littered the area, making the going rough and uneven. It wasn’t
Afraid as she was, she looked almost relieved. Apparently, she’d rather go with them, monsters she was a little familiar with, than face down monsters she didn’t know.
He supposed he couldn’t blame her.
Chapter Five
“They’ve had two incidences off the coast of South America. There’s been casualties,” Freda said to Dr. Wagner, getting off the phone.
“Us or them?” he asked, looking up from the computer on his desk.
“Us,” she said.
Dr. Wagner sighed in disgust and closed his laptop. “Imbeciles. Did they bring the tipped bullets like they were supposed to?”
“Everyone’s using them. They aren’t working anymore. They’re healing too fast for them to be effective. The silver tipping only slows them down.”
“Dammit. I didn’t foresee this happening. I thought we had the method of execution right. They need to come back and get the tranquilizers. It worked on the cats, it should work on them. Tranquilize the subjects, shoot them in the head, and burn the bodies to get rid of the evidence. It’s the only way to kill them. Have any locals been infected?”
“Not that we know of, but it’s too early to tell yet,” Freda said.
“Get in contact with the Captain. Make sure the locals think it’s chupacabra and not something else. They must be heading down the coast and moving faster than we anticipated.”
“Agreed. I’ll call the captain and get them to return for tranquilizers.”
***
“Come on. We’ve got to rescue the bags and get some clothes on. We can’t stay here like this. It’s too dangerous to be seen,” Zach said, leading them back into the jungle. “Try and keep up.”
When she saw how close they’d been to where they rescued her, she looked at them with surprise on her face. “Were you guys following me?”
Zach shrugged. “We wanted to make sure you got home okay and didn’t get hurt by anyone. I guess it’s a good thing we did or things would be different right now.”
It didn’t take long for them to recover the bags and get dressed. As bright as dawn had made the beach, inside the jungle it was a completely different story.
Spattering light made it difficult to see anything clearly. The scrape and jab of bushes tore at her already ragged clothing and snatched at her bare arms and face.
She resisted the urge to complain, knowing they’d only reluctantly agreed to take her with them. She wasn’t going to give them an excuse to regret their decision.
Still, she couldn’t help but react to every insect biting and sucking her blood. Every vine looked like a snake. Every broken limb or floating leaf she was sure was something horrible out to get her. She knew enough from school and television to know that the jungle was not a place she wanted to be. They had every sort of deadly spider, frog, snake, and scorpion imaginable plus then some.
Jasmine didn’t want to admit to anyone that she was spooked by the wildness of the jungle, but after being attacked on the beach, her nerves were on edge. There was only so much a woman could take before having a nervous breakdown.
She was proud of herself for handling an unbelievable situation as well as she had. To think that the men she found herself first kidnapped by, freed, and then rescued by weren’t completely human?
It was a hard pill to swallow. If she hadn’t seen it with her own eyes she would have thought she’d lost her damned mind.
She was pretty close to thinking she had anyway because of her willingness to go with them into the jungle, but she didn’t have many options available to her.
They were on the run and she knew it. They didn’t have time for her to act like a frightened baby screaming at everything. So she bit her tongue and ran after them and tried to keep up with them as well as she could.
Heavy vines and limbs littered the area, making the going rough and uneven. It wasn’t
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