Ruthless Charity: A Charity Styles Novel by Wayne Stinnett

Author:Wayne Stinnett [Stinnett, Wayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mystery
ISBN: 9780998128504
Google: XqU0vgAACAAJ
Amazon: B01LXH5F2J
Publisher: Down Island Press
Published: 2016-09-10T04:00:00+00:00

Charity woke suddenly. She’d been exhausted after dropping Napier at his house and getting the bird back to the airport. She’d checked it over very closely and found no bullet holes, which was good. If someone else noticed one, it would become very suspicious that she’d not reported it. After arranging for fuel, she’d come straight back to the hotel, ordered a sandwich brought up from room service, then eaten and gone to bed.

Looking at the clock on the nightstand, Charity saw that it was just after midnight. She’d been awakened by another dream. This one wasn’t like the others that sometimes crept into her sub-conscious at night, though.

Wearing only a faded yellow Gaspar’s Revenge tee-shirt, Charity stepped out onto the south facing balcony. The shirt was a gift from one of her former co-workers, when she’d spent several weeks on his boat, looking for a man. The friend operated a charter fishing service in the Florida Keys as a cover. They’d finally tracked the man down and she’d killed him.

The return to the Keys on Jesse McDermitt’s boat had been unhurried. Over a period of several days, she’d opened up to the man, more so than with any of the VA shrinks she’d talked with. He had a very easy-going way about him, and she’d felt comfortable when she was around him.

In a moment of loneliness, she wondered where Jesse and her other former co-workers were and what they were doing. It had now been several months since she pulled off of the search for Jesse and flown to Miami to disappear. At times, usually at night, she wondered if they knew what had really happened to her. In ways she couldn’t explain or comprehend, it was important to her that the members of her former team, especially McDermitt, know that she wasn’t a turncoat, that she hadn’t abandoned them.

A crescent moon, halfway up the eastern sky, illuminated the sea and everything on it. Several sailboats lay at anchor in the small bay beneath her. To the southwest, away from the light of the moon and the city, stars flickered against the black background of space.

The dream that had awakened her was puzzling. Most dreams were puzzling, but even more so when you tried to recall them and determine their meaning. In her dream, she’d been talking to the same man that she’d seen in dreams a few times this past week. Those other times, he’d only appeared in a sort of haze, and she was never able to make out any features.

This time, the man was with someone else. A woman. The dream was clearer this time and Charity could tell that both the man and woman were very old. She couldn’t recall the woman’s features but felt as though she was much older than the man. However, when the woman moved, she carried herself like a much younger woman.

As she stared out over the calm sea, Charity tried to recall the old man’s features. She immediately saw

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