Free Mega #02 Baja Blood by Jake Bible Page B

freeze up. How’d that look in front of the pretty gringas?
    “It’s coming!” the blonde screamed, her hand pounding his back. “Hurry!”
    “I am!” he shouted, swatting back at her. “Stop it!”
    The blonde, in shock and scared for her life, didn’t stop, just kept pounding on Hector and screaming at him to go faster. He was fine until she grabbed his arm, causing him to swerve violently.
    “Knock it off!” he shouted, shoving her away.
    And right off the boat.
    The girls screamed for him to stop, but Hector had no intention of doing that.
     
    ***
     
    As the boat sped away from Vanessa, she couldn’t believe it was all happening. She’d saved up all year to go on the summer trip to Baja with her friends. It was her last fling before senior year at UCLA.
    But all of her dreams, hopes, aspirations, disappeared in one chomp as the shark came at her from below, taking her entire body into its mouth before falling back to the water. Vanessa’s blood actually spurted from the shark’s gills as water rushed back through them.
     
    ***
     
    Hector heard Vanessa’s scream, even over the roar of the boat motor and the shouts of the other girls, but he didn’t slow down. He kept the throttle pushed and aimed the boat for the closest pier.
    But his path was quickly blocked as a fifteen foot wide mouth opened before his precious boat. He swerved to the side, sending two girls flying right at the shark. The shark’s mouth clamped down as the girls flew inside. Blood was everywhere and Hector tried not to throw up, but the vomit wouldn’t be held back.
    He puked all over himself as he changed directions and hit the throttle again. Yet the boat started to slow, not speed up and Hector slammed his hand against the throttle over and over. The motors whined and then he smelled smoke. He whipped his head around and screamed as he saw the shark that had its jaws clamped onto the dive ledge.
    Hector cut the motors and looked around for something to use as a weapon. One girl was still onboard, and when he couldn’t find anything large enough to hit the shark with, he decided to distract it.
    “WHAT ARE YOU DOING?” the girl screamed as Hector picked her up and threw her over the side.
    She screamed her head off. Then her head actually came off as the rest of her was swallowed whole. Hector shrieked as the head popped up into the air, spinning over and over until it landed right next to him. He tried to kick it away, but lost his footing.
    And fell into the water.
    Blood. That was all he could see. Blood.
    It was so thick he never saw what came at him from the side, killing him instantly as it crushed his body like he was hit by a Mack truck.
     
    ***
     
    The other vacationers on the water started slamming into each other as they panicked and tried to get their watercrafts back to the shore as fast as possible. Hunks of fiberglass filled the water along with terrified tourists that splashed and screamed as they were pulled under one by one, sometimes two by two, by chemically driven eating machines.
    The monster sharks gorged themselves, oblivious to the plastic taste of sunblock and silicone implants.
     
    ***
     
    Gunnar looked at his phone and shook his head.
    “Same number?” Kinsey asked, shouting over the roar of the helo’s rotors. “Who the hell is it?”
    “I don’t know,” Gunnar replied as he adjusted the microphone on his headset. “I don’t recognize the number.”
    “We’re here,” Darby said from the pilot’s seat. She brought the helo around in a tight circle then slowly lowered it to the street below. “Five minutes.”
    “Thank you, Darby,” Ballantine said from the co-pilot’s seat. “We won’t be long. Kinsey?”
    “Yeah, what?” Kinsey snapped. Ballantine raised his eyebrows at her tone. “Sorry. Shitty day.”
    “I can imagine,” Ballantine nodded. “It would have been considerably more shitty if I hadn’t arrived with Darby, don’t you think?”
    “Yes, thanks,” Gunnar