SILK WICKEDNESS 33

Guy had stopped waving. He had swum a little further with a powerful crawl. He stopped again, and gave another beckoning wave. Claudia waved back. ‘We’re coming!’ she yelled, but knew he couldn’t hear.

Anoushka was suddenly rigid. ‘Get out!’ she screamed, waving her arms frantically. ‘Get out!’

Claudia stared at her, aghast. ‘What on - ’

‘Can’t you see?* She ripped off her sunglasses, handed them to her. ‘Look! In the water!’

Claudia went cold.

Without the sunglasses she could never have seen. But with powerful lenses cutting out the glare she could see all too clearly.

There must have been a half a dozen of them. Dark, streamlined, stealthy shapes, circling beneath him.

'Where there's food about, there are always predators .’

This time, she knew they weren’t dolphins.

- - -

What must have gone through his mind when he finally realized why they were yelling and waving their arms so frantically she could not bear to think.

He glanced behind him, but there was nothing to see, no fins br