Dead and Gone (The Still Waters Suspense Series Book 3) by Dawn Lee McKenna & Axel Blackwell

Author:Dawn Lee McKenna & Axel Blackwell [McKenna, Dawn Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Sweet Tea Press
Published: 2019-05-11T22:00:00+00:00

Evan stopped to see Hannah, then ran into The Pig to see what looked good for dinner. He was tired and out of sorts and didn’t want to go to a lot of trouble, but he was also hungry and feeling the need for a little nutritional therapy. He ended up splurging on a few enormous sea scallops.

Evan was relieved to find that Plutes hadn’t inflicted any special damage on the boat that day. An African violet was knocked over on one of the tables in the salon, its dirt spread out like ripples in a pond. It was the same African violet that had been overturned at least ten times, and Evan was less than amused that it kept thriving, when Evan couldn’t keep a philodendron alive.

He cleaned up the mess, then fired up the grill out on the sundeck, put his square cast iron grill pan inside, and closed the lid. Evan could live on seafood, but he could live without having the smell inside for days.

He got out of his work clothes and put on some cargo shorts and a white tee shirt. He luxuriated in being barefoot as he walked from his stateroom, across the salon, and down into the U-shaped galley. He grabbed the small package of scallops, some asparagus, butter, and lemon, and went out onto the sundeck. Plutes had wandered out there earlier, and Evan found him perched atop one of the starboard-side lockers, tail barely twitching.

“It might interest you to know,” Evan said, “That dinner cost me twenty-five dollars. So, I’d appreciate it if you’d show a little gratitude and refrain from yakking it up on my stateroom floor.”

Apparently, it did not interest Plutes to know; the cat gave Evan one slow blink and then turned to gaze out over the darkening marina.

Evan oiled and seasoned the asparagus and threw them directly on the grill. Then he lightly seasoned the scallops and carefully placed them in the cast iron grill pan.

“Leave it,” he said to Plutes as he went inside to grab a plate and some flatware for himself, and a saucer for the idiot. Plutes was right where he’d left him when Evan got back. He stood at the grill, worrying over the scallops and wielding a pair of tongs for the moment when it would be time to turn them. The time finally came, and turn them he finally did, then he dashed into the galley for a bottle of water and arrived back at the grill just in time to remove the scallops from the heat.

He placed five on his own plate and one on Plutes’s. If he liked it, he could have another, unless Evan ate it first.

“You’ll find, if you set aside your clear and annoying biases, that sea scallops are far superior to bay scallops; I don’t care what any of these Panhandle people say.”

Evan placed the saucer on the locker in front of Plutes, who sniffed at it tentatively.

“I would cut it for you to cool it off,” Evan said, “But it’s essential for you to notice the perfect sear.

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