He frowned. ‘Did you hear that, sir?’
Vanbrugh stood listening, head on one side. He shook his head. ‘I didn’t hear a damned thing, Sergeant. Come on, we’re wasting our time here.’
He turned and led the way back along the path through the undergrowth.
As the launch drifted out of the estuary, waves started to slap against her hull and Rogan pressed the starter. The powerful diesel engines rumbled into life and he took the launch in a long sweeping curve out past the last point of land into the open sea.
He turned and smiled down at Hannah standing there in the cockpit beside him, and slipped an arm around her waist, pulling her close. For the first time in his life he felt as if he were really crashing out of something.
The End