Just Add Salt (Hetta Coffey Mystery Series (Book 2)) by Schwartz Jinx

Author:Schwartz, Jinx [Schwartz, Jinx]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Jinx Schwartz
Published: 2011-09-28T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

As we raised the anchor for a site visit, Fabio called the Capitanía and informed them we were leaving port for a few nights in the bay. We checked on the hurricanes again and, as predicted, Russell was running up Monika’s backside and they were both headed west.

On the trip out to Punta Entrada, the entrance to Mag Bay as well as the proposed site for the pipeline and desal operation, I sat on the back deck, watching hopeful seagulls dog our wake, and pondering Jan’s badly timed revelation about Jenks’s future plans.

Lars said they had a life plan that did not include any long-term commitments to others, namely Jan and Hetta. But was Lars being truthful, or just manipulative? I scoured my memory banks. Had Jenks ever, even once, used the C-word? No, but neither had I. Had he ever indicated I was permanent in his future plans? No, but neither had I. I guess we hadn’t planned much past a boat trip to Mexico. One he hadn’t shown up for. Tears stung my eyes, disappointment ached in my heart. I had made assumptions. I had made yet another mistake.

“Why so glum, chum?” Jan asked when she found me staring out to sea.

I wheezed a ragged sigh. “Just thinking about what you told me yesterday. I guess I thought Jenks and I, well, I thought that just maybe, finally…. My voice drifted off. Finally, what? I’d met my soul mate? Or whatever the psychobabble was for it these days? Someone to grow old with? Who I could trust with my very life? Evidently not.

“Hetta, Jenks does like you. Maybe even loves you. Look, I’m really, really sorry I even told you what Lars said.”

“I’m glad you did. This way I can get on with my life instead of waiting around for a man who may or may not want to spend it with me. You’d think, after all these years and the crap I’ve been through in the name of love, I’d have learned to lower my expectations. What an idiot I was to let down my guard. I gotta admit, though, this is the worst. I am really hurt. Damn him. How dare he treat me so ?”

Jan broke out laughing. “That’s my Hetta. Why don’t you just wait till you see him again to write him off? Who knows, maybe it’s Lars he’s gonna dump and he just hasn’t gotten around to telling him.”

“Blood is thicker than lust.”

“Blood and lust. Greed and malice. Gee, what a life we lead. And speaking of lust, look who’s baaaack.”

Lonesome surfaced close enough to Raymond Johnson to rock the boat. He blew, we gagged. He turned sideways and gave us the big eye. I swear, he winked.

Chino rushed up on deck. “Oh, magnífico!”

“He is a magnificent pain in the ass. Of all the gin joints, he has to pick mine.”

Chino looked puzzled. Not a Bogart fan, I guess. I went to join Fabio at the helm.

“Señorita Café, is that where you wish to anchor?” He pointed to a spot near the entrance to Mag Bay.

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