Good Friends by Leeanne Moriarty

Author:Leeanne Moriarty [Moriarty, Leeanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Flashlight Books
Published: 2020-11-13T22:00:00+00:00

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Michael lay prone on the sand, as if he had plunged from a height. He opened his eyes and for a terrifying few seconds had no idea where he was. Then he saw the curve of the beach and the towering cliff tinted orange by the light of the sagging sun and it all came back to him.

But there was no sign of Liz Keller’s speedboat.

Panicking, he sat up, scanning the horizon, and found the boat behind him, bobbing on the swelling tide.

Dumbass.

A warm wave lapped at Michael’s foot. He was still naked, and felt exposed and defenseless.

He looked around for his trunks but couldn’t see them.

“Hey nature boy!”

He turned. Liz Keller walked toward him, dressed in her swimsuit, wrapped in the cloth. She slung something wet and sandy at him.

“Looking for these?”

He caught the trunks and stood and pulled them on. She watched him without expression.

“I’d better get you home,” she said.

She walked back to the trees and gathered the champagne bottle and glasses and remains of their meal and put them into the cooler box.

As Michael followed her some dark dread ambushed him from out of the lengthening shadows and he shivered despite the heat.

“You okay?” Liz asked.

He felt hollow, spent and joyless, but he said, “Yeah. Sure.”

She stared at him with cold eyes and he thought of the woo-woo story the Thais told about the succubus.

Liz frowned. “What?”

“Nothing,” Michael said and dressed in his rumpled shirt and shorts.

He pulled on his cap and hid his eyes behind his sunglasses.

Lifting the cooler box he carried it out to the speedboat. He climbed aboard and took his seat. He’d left his phone on the boat. He swiped its face and saw eleven missed calls from Caroline.

Liz was boarding and he pocketed the phone. She raised the anchor and started the outboards. She worked the throttle, taking them away from the island, toward the sun that was drowning itself in the Andaman Sea.

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