Page 31 of Get Kraken

It seemed to have naturally narrowed eyes, but there was something about the way it looked at her that made it seem as though it was extra suspicious of her.

“You’re tricking me.”

Shit.

She dove under. It likely wasn’t enough room, but she didn’t have the time.

The bunyip followed after her, the water and sand of the shallows splashing around her, distrusting her vision.

Getting her tendrils out even with her bikini bottom on felt tight as hell around what was left of her waist, but it wouldn’t be nearly as tight as though teeth crushing her if she let this thing get her.

Even if it did, even if it ate and killed her, she was going to make sure it was caught and arrested.

She as not going to let this ugly fucker get away with murdering her mates.

Mike grunted,then growled when something hard whacked him in the face.

It happened again, and the second time was enough to yank him back to the surface of the murky waters he’d been swimming in.

“Wake up!”

He snapped his eyes open.

He was wet, but not in water, and the teeth in his mouth were in rows of shark teeth, not human.

Chase sat above him.

There was blood all over the man’s face, and for a second, through the pounding in his head, the fogginess he’d come out of, through everything, Mike didn’t recognize who he was.

Then he did, and everything came back in an instant.

“Olivia—“

“She’s in the water with that thing. We have to go.”

Chase grabbed his hand, yanking Mike up to his feet.

The Earth tilted, he stumbled, but then he was good. There was nothing to stop him from rushing to the water, tearing at his clothes.

“Where’s the backup?”

“On their way. I made the call the second I woke up.”

He kicked his feet over the surf, throwing his clothes away as he made it to chest height.

“Mike, he killed Carol. She’d shown up, a surprise backup, and the fucker killed her for her kindness.”

Mike couldn’t believe it. Carol was supposed to be back in the US with the rest of the ATTF. She’d come all this way, just to die?

The sound of sirens came to him, not far off, but it might as well have been a world away for the good it did to Carol.

And if Mike didn’t get into the water soon, it would be a world too far away to do any good for Olivia.

Mike didn’t care about making an arrest. Fuck the arrest. He was going full shark, and he was killing this thing.

“Go take care of yourself. Fill in the team when they get here. I’m going in the water.”

He dove under just as he heard Chase roar his curses and abuse.

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