Nick Caine 07: Map of the Masons by Tomb K. T

Author:Tomb, K. T. [Tomb, K. T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Action & Adventure, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Multi-Author
Amazon: B01H0Q3D7I
Publisher: Amazon Media
Published: 2016-06-11T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

As it had turned out, Cat had more than one bottle of Medellin’s brand of rum, which, I’ll have to admit, wasn’t too bad.

I surely sampled enough of it to know. In fact, I’d drank so much of it that Ishi’s disappearance and the things that Cat had done to me after he’d presumably gone to bed, were just a very pleasant blur, with momentary flashes of things that continued to make me smile when I awakened the following morning; even though I was pretty sure that my insides were making war with each other.

“Wow, you look like crap,” Ishi grinned when I came stumbling in for breakfast. It was daylight, but not by much.

“Yeah,” I responded, sitting down with a slump and unceremoniously lighting a menthol.

“You guys have fun last night?” he beamed. He was enjoying my pain way more than normal. In fact, if I didn’t know better, and I might not have at the time, I’d think we’d switched bodies during the night. Because he was the cheerful and optimistic member of our partnership and I was the sour-faced one.

“I really have no idea, but could you keep your voice down?”

Worse than Ishi was the return of Cat’s be-bopping personality. Trust me, though it was good to see her back in the spirits that I’d gotten used to, it’s not the type of behavior that mixes well with a hangover.

“Hey stud,” she winked. “How you feeling this morning?”

“Do you really have to ask?”

“You know, one of the worst things about rum is that the high sugar content makes your hangover twice as bad,” Cat said, handing me a room temperature cola to drink.

“Gee, thanks for that little tidbit.”

My sarcasm switch was on but my ego knew better than to argue too much with the woman. I took the soda and downed it; the name of the game was quick and efficient re-hydration.

“But everybody lives through it and today, we’re going treasure hunting.” She over-exaggerated with her eyes as she said it. She was mocking me, but I didn’t really care.

“You sure we can go in this condition?” I asked.

“Ishi and I are fine. I guess we could go without you.”

“Yeah, right, not a chance,” I replied.

Cat shrugged.

“Let’s go then,” I mumbled. “But keep your voices down, please.”

“That’s quite a change from last night,” Cat laughed. “You seemed to be quite content with doing things that made me make all sorts of noise.”

“I had a hell of a time getting any sleep,” Ishi added, grinning broadly.

Something wasn’t right. My partner wasn’t lecturing me about being careful, falling too quick and too hard for a woman and all of that jargon. I was suspicious that they were having a good laugh at my expense, but my brain really wasn’t interested in going through the painful process of figuring it out. What I did figure out rather quickly, and painfully, was that the Caribbean sun was way too bright that morning.

I started into the Quonset hut where we’d left Isabel the night before, but Cat called out to me.

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