4 Maui Macadamia Madness by Cynthia Hickey

Author:Cynthia Hickey [Hickey, Cynthia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-12-16T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

I sipped my pineapple drink and watched as Ethan body-surfed. Having recovered from my parasailing ordeal, I wanted nothing more than to enjoy the late afternoon with a yummy drink and the company of my family. Especially since I had oodles of questions for my aunt.

“I saw you in Lahaina today.” I peered at her over my sunglasses.

“I saw you and Ethan ditching us this morning.” She raised her eyebrows.

“Well, I, uh…”

“It’s your honeymoon, I know.” She reached over and patted my arm. “Don’t worry. I’m glad you didn’t say anything in Lahaina. You would have blown my cover. While you were off playing, I was being a detective.”

“What did you find out?” I turned on my side and took a long draw from my straw. “Through my camera lens it looked like you were spying on Susan and Manano. Is that right?”

She frowned. “Where were you?”

“In the sky.”

“Fine, don’t tell me.” She shrugged. “April and Joe ditched me, too. Roy wasn’t feeling well, so—”

“You went investigating on your own?” That straightened me up. “Do you realize how dangerous that is?”

“Like you don’t do it all the time.” She waved a hand at me. “Anyway, I took a shuttle to Lahaina to do some shopping and saw our little lovebirds—”

“Susan and Manano, right?” I sat up and shoved my toes in the sand.

“Would you stop asking that? You sound like a broken record. Yes, it was them.” Aunt Eunice exhaled sharply and shook her head. “Anyway, they were arguing—”

“Like Leroy and Camilla Wahine.”

“I don’t know about them, but.” She gave me a stern look. “Susan was upset because our dear police officer hadn’t taken care of some kind of ‘business’” She made finger quotes in the air. “And that ‘she’ whoever that is, but I have my guess, was still nosing around.”

Hmmm, sounded sinister, and I could lay money down on who ‘she’ was. “I could see the dear brother and sister arguing, too, or at least that’s what it looked like.” What could possibly have everyone in an uproar?

“Howdy.” April plopped into a chair next to me. “Guess what I found out?”

Aunt Eunice peered around me. “That it’s rude to disappear from the people who paid for your vacation?”

Her face reddened. “Sorry about that, but Joe wanted to spend some time together.”

“We’re your chaperones. Y’all aren’t married yet.” Aunt Eunice crossed her arms and settled back.

“Never mind her,” I said. “Spill your guts.”

“Jamison’s first name is Bob, or Robert, rather. He owned Jamison’s Resort Construction. Guess who is his partners?”

“Susan Wood is one.”

“Bingo!”

“Who is the other?” My straw made slurping sounds on the bottom of my empty glass. I glanced behind us for a server. The Wahine might be a bed and breakfast, but they treated the guests as if it were a resort. Pure paradise, when people weren’t dying anyway.

“It’s a corporation. Plumeria Builders, based in Honolulu.” She sure looked proud of herself.

“More drinks?” Camille stepped beside us, pretty in a fuschia flowered dress.

“Please. Pineapple Mango all around.

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