Kauai Temptations by Terry Ambrose

Author:Terry Ambrose [Ambrose, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Amateur sleuths, Pacific, Travel, murder, humor, identity theft, crime fiction, Hawaii, Kauai
ISBN: 9780985954024
Publisher: Satori
Published: 2013-10-12T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

CJ forced me to drive on the way home from Meddle’s Mortuary. I still didn’t like driving, but it was starting to feel less stressful. She also demanded to know about my conversation with Kong. If I hadn’t needed her advice, I would have avoided the subject at all costs. However, I thought she might help me find a surfing resource and told her about my meeting with Kong at Lawai Beach. I hadn’t yet seen her at a loss for words, but for a brief moment, it appeared as though that streak had ended. The road was still my main concern, but when she started to wheeze, I gave her a quick sideways glance.

Her mouth moved, but no words came out. Her eyes were like saucers. Was she having a heart attack or something? Then, the tirade started. “Are you crazy? You can’t learn to surf in two hours. I don’t think you could learn to surf in two weeks. Maybe months. Years. Which you ain’t got.”

My hands tightened into a familiar death grip on Buster’s steering wheel. “You’re making me nervous.”

“I’m making you nervous? Let up on that wheel a little. You’re gonna get us both killed. You were supposed to do a little research. You know, call the local paper. Look at a few websites. Maybe even do something really daring like go to the library.”

“Yeah, yeah. Been there, done that.”

“You can’t go confronting people like Kong. He could kill you. Alexander would never forgive me.”

“You can only do so much third-party research, sooner or later, it’s time to get into the field.” It’s too bad I was as worried on the inside as I sounded confident on the outside. “I did this lots of times in my career.”

CJ snorted. “In case you haven’t noticed, you were a lot younger then. That was your job, uh huh. Besides, you were always after deadbeats who were afraid of you. That’s called the power position in case you didn’t know.”

“But, this is different.”

“You’re damn right this is different. This guy could be a criminal. He might want to bump you off cause he don’t like the way you hang ten or whatever you think you’re gonna do out there.”

Buster veered over the center line and the blare of an oncoming car horn grew louder before fading into oblivion. I pulled back into my lane, my confidence shaken. I yelled at the rearview mirror, “Screw you, buddy!”

My jaw felt tense, my neck, tight.

“You better be watching the road, not the guy behind you, uh huh.”

I guided Buster down the center of my lane with my pulse pounding in my temples. Was my anger directed at CJ, or myself? “You helped me with the bar visit. That was easy, right?”

“You idiot, there was no danger in going to a bar. Jake the bartender didn’t have nothing to hide. But this is the guy who made his cousin disappear. You understand?”

“So are you going to help me learn to surf, or what?”

“Me? Surf? Do I look like I could surf? Huh?”

I stammered, “Well, maybe not.

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