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A moment later, Eduardo broke the surface, ten feet off the stern

“¡Ayúdaarrando el pie!”

Helpmy foot!

“You gotta be shitting ain

The water broke again a moment later It wasn’t just Eduardo this ti Scanlon in his beer belly Beside Eduardo was asuit!

“Surprise!” Manuel Perrine said as he peeled off the face mask and chucked it onto the deck “How is everyone? Vida, you’re a sight for sore eyes”

Everyone stood there, blinking, trying to catch up Vida was completely flummoxed The call had said they were there to receive a shipht it would be the boss himself

“I got you, didn’t I? I can tell,” Perrine said, swi toward the rear of the boat

“You actually jumped off the deck of that rust bucket, didn’t you, you crazy son of a bitch,” Scanlon said as he hauled Perrine up onto the deck

“What can I say, Scanlon?” Perrine had a twinkle in his light-blue eyes “I still got it”

Vida kept on staring as the rest of the men fished Eduardo out of the drink Perrine was back in the US! What did that ood How could it?

Eduardo was right, she thought

There actually was a tiburón A two-legged one, now on board

CHAPTER 42

EVEN WITHOUT THE AID of a rooster, I woke up on the air base bright and early the next