Boiling Point (Point Series) by Dionne Karen

Author:Dionne, Karen [Dionne, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Point Press
Published: 2013-12-08T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

Rebecca sat on the edge of the twin bed nearest the window in her room at the Residencial Londres with her face turned toward the sun. “A little more,” Julie said, and Rebecca tilted her chin higher. Julie snapped the picture. “Okay, now turn toward the left.”

Rebecca complied. Her eyes watered from the morning light. She felt vastly better than she had last night, but the effects of the acid bath lingered. Blurred vision, redness, pain. When she’d floundered blindly down Santa Lucia Hill stripped to her bra with her eyes streaming, her first instinct had been to call an ambulance. Her eyelids were swollen nearly shut, and her face, chest, and neck burned. It was her eyes that worried her most. Only a fool would take chances with their eyesight. But getting medical treatment in a foreign country was complicated at best. Communicating with doctors and medical personnel in a language not your own; arranging for payment. And because she’d been attacked in a public park, the police would get involved. Rebecca wasn’t worried about her own illegal actions; she doubted Chile had a law on the books specifying a drastic punishment for sneaking into a public park. But tossing acid at a tourist was an unusual enough crime that the police would surely investigate. When they did, they’d find a connection between her and her attackers she’d rather they didn’t. That she had gotten involved in an investigation into the illegal dumping of sulfuric acid one day and been attacked with acid the next was no coincidence.

Besides, by the time she reached the bottom of the hill and staggered out of the park, her eyesight had improved to the point where the pedestrians she passed looked like people instead of vague, formless shapes. By sticking to the less-populated side streets, she’d managed to stumble her way to the Residencial Londres without a well-meaning citizen seeing her distress and trying to get involved. When she buzzed into the hostel and requested her room key, the night desk clerk’s jaw had dropped. He’d hurried around from behind the desk, but she’d waved him off. Knocked on the door to Julie’s room, told her to fetch bandages, painkillers, and aloe, and then let herself into her own room and headed straight for the shower. Once there, she tipped her head back with her eyes open to flush them out again.

“Okay. Now stand up.”

Rebecca did, holding her arms away from her sides so that Julie could photograph the burns on her torso. The one directly above her left breast was the most severe, probably because that was where the acid solution had struck first before splashing into her face; it was an irregular red patch the shape of her hand that surrounded a quarter-sized blister. The rest of her burns were no worse than a bad sunburn. Removing her shirt, flooding her skin with water, and bathing her eyes immediately after the attack had made a significant difference.

And really, at the

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