CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
He lifted his head slowly and looked around, especially in the direction he had heard the sound coming from. His heart started pounding. He felt blood cooling so fast in his body that he started trembling. He saw from afar what looked like a boat going away from the island.
“What’s wrong?” Asked Evelina sleeping on the boat bed warming herself up caressing herself.
“I think we better be going. If what I heard is what I think it is. We then can’t be on this Island. But to be sure, let’s go back now.”
Evelina sat up and pulled up her knickers.
“What did you hear?”
Alex breathed heavily.
“A gunshot sound,” said Alex, looking haunted. He was shaking. She had never seen him like this before.
Instinctively, she checked his pants.
“Are you sure it’s not just your paran
