Page 36 of When He Fights
“Right fuckinghere,” Kane snarled as he burst out of the stairwell and ran for Turner.
Turner spun toward Kane, and Ana used that distraction to race to the left.Her goal was to grab one of the big nets and use it in an attack.Her fingers had almost touched the long, wooden pole that connected to the net when?—
Splash.
She whipped around.
Kane and Turner had gone into the water.Her mouth dropped.She grabbed the net and rushed back to the platform’s edge, stopping to kneel right by the top of the water.“Kane!Kane!”
He swam beneath the surface.The sharks darted right by him.No, they dartedawayfrom him.
“What is happening here?”George’s familiar voice shouted.
“Call the cops!”Ana yelled without looking at him.Her focus was completely on Kane.A Kane who needed to rise to the surface.Come on.Come up.Come up.
“Already did.”Zuri’s shaking response.
Wait, when had Zuri arrived?But her friend was suddenly crouching next to Ana and staring down into the water.
“Are they gonna get bitten?”Zuri asked.
Ana shook her head.“No.”Hopefully not.“But Turner had a knife.He tried to stab me, and he could stab Kane!”If Kane didn’t surface in the next five seconds, she was going in after him.
“So Kaneisn’tthe bad guy?”Zuri wanted to know.Then, lower, “Probably want to call the cops back and update them on that situation.”
Kane broke the surface.Water flew around him as he tossed back his head.
“Kane!”Relief broke in his name.
His eyes locked on her.“You’re okay.”A statement.Not a question.Kinda more like a…You’d damn well better be okay.
“I’m not the one swimming in a shark tank!”Ana shouted at him.“Kane, get out.”
He swam toward her and hauled a spitting and shaking Turner with him.
“One touched my foot!”Turner screamed.“It hit me!I felt it!It’s going to bite—it’s going to bite—get me the fuck out!”
Kane kept his hard grip on Turner.
“He was going to kill me,” Ana heard herself say.“Cut me with his knife, and he wanted the sharks to finish me off.”That had been Turner’s first plan.Should she mention the more recent plan?“He also had the idea of just holding me under while the sharks attacked.”
Kane’s eyes narrowed right before he dropped his grip on Turner.The man immediately sank beneath the surface.
“Kane!”Ana cried.“Kane, he was ordered to do it!We have to make Turner talk—and we can’t just let him drown!”
“I’m going in,” George announced from beside her.
Only he did not, in fact, go in.He just kept crouching.Waiting.Sweating.
“Those sharks aren’t gonna bite, right?”George wanted to know.“Aren’t they like, really well fed?”
She ignored him.“Kane!Get out—and bring Turner with you!”
Kane huffed out a breath.“Fuck.”Then he disappeared beneath the surface.A few moments later, he was back, and he practically threw a sobbing Turner onto the observation platform near the water before Kane hauled himself out and stood up.
Water poured from his body.His clothes clung tightly to every single muscle.
“Holy shit,” Zuri breathed.“I want one of those.”
