194 CHAPTER 23
Komatipoort, South Africa, the present dayNick looked around the single-storey outdoor shopping mall complex. He tried to imagine what it might be like to tangle with one of the crocodiles that he had already seen in the Sabie River.
Cyril Blake had rushed into the river without hesitation and taken the beast in almost hand-to-hand combat. He must have had feelings for Claire, or was it simply a soldier’s instinct to protect someone in trouble?
Nick wondered if he would have had the courage to do something like that.
He went back to his little car and set off for the Kruger Park again. After a few minutes his phone rang and he pulled over to the side of the road. His heart skipped as he fished it out of his pocket, hoping it was Susan calling to say she had reconsidered
