Read Luxuria for Free Online Page B

glared out into the jungle. “She isn’t coming back and I know it.”
    “How?” Jessica probed.
    “Cause my damn wallet is gone.” He cursed again. “She damn well robbed us in our sleep.”
    Dustin grabbed for his inhaler.
    Jessica moved over to his pack and began searching through it. “No, that can’t be true; she wouldn’t do that, she couldn’t.” She dumped the pack onto the ground, feverishly going through Josh’s things, praying he missed something in his search. “There’s got to be an explanation!”
    Dustin took another shot from his inhaler, hoping it would help him calm down. “Ya there is, we got robbed and left out in the jungle to die.” Dustin muttered. “Just like I said was going to...” Josh cut him off.
    “I don’t want to hear it Dustin! I don’t want to hear it.” He ran his hand through his messy brown hair. “We aren’t going to die, we can get out of here we just need to follow our path back to the road, it’s that simple.” They turned and looked around, trying to find where they had come from. But the jungle had reclaimed itself already, leaving no trace of the path they had cut.
    “And what path would that be?” Mark sighed bitterly.
    “We’re going to die out here,” Dustin cried looking around anxiously. “I knew this was a stupid idea.”
    “No we’re not Dustin,” growled Josh, “we just... we just need to get moving again until we find help or something.”
    “In this kind of situation, aren’t we supposed to stay put until help find us?” Jessica said.
    “And what help would that be Jess? No one knows we are out here aside from that bitch that robbed us and left us here.” Josh countered. “I have a very hard time believing that when she gets back to the city that she will be letting anyone know we are out here.”
    “We just can’t be stuck out here...” she began, searching the perimeter of the camp. “Our path has to be around here - it couldn’t have just disappeared.”
    “Josh is right. We can’t stay here or we will end up something’s lunch.” Mark said grimly. “Nor will we have any hope of finding help if we are hidden under the jungle’s canopy. We need to find some place wide and open so we might be able to flag down a plane with that flare gun or something.”
    “And in what direction do you think we should just start our death march?” Dustin threw his arms up in frustrated anger.
    “This way...”
    Jessica looked around, confused. “Did you guys just hear that?”
    “Hear what?” Josh snipped refilling his pack.
    “I thought I...” she shook her head. “Nothing, it must have been nothing.”
    “... come this way ...”
    Jessica looked around again and spotted something sparkling in the growth. “Hey, there’s something over here.”
    Dustin followed her into the brush. “What is it Jess, what do you see?”
    “Holy shit guys,” she called out to them, “you aren’t going to believe this!”
    They pushed their way in to stand beside her and stopped at the notably ingrown rocky path before them. Their eyes locked onto the golden, gem-encrusted statuette within her hands.
    “No way...” Mark muttered, “is that thing real?”
    Dustin moved closer running his fingers across its surface. “Is that gold?” Jessica handed it over and Dustin nearly dropped it from the weight of it. “I think it is!”
    Josh pulled the ingot from his pocket. “Let me see that.” Josh took the statuette and looked it over comparing the two, his eyes growing wider with each pass. “Do you know how much this thing might be worth? The weight of gold in it alone is likely over a hundred thousand.”
    “Jesus Christ.” Jessica mumbled, her eyes wide with possibility. “We could be set for life.”
    “How much you want to make a bet at the end of that pathway are the ruins we came looking for and a lot more of this?” He held up the statue. “We could be rich beyond our wildest dreams.”
    “Gold and gems are useless if we