TAKE THE MONEY: Romantic Suspense in Costa Rica by Lucia Sinn

Author:Lucia Sinn [Sinn, Lucia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lucia Sinn
Published: 2014-10-28T04:00:00+00:00

That night Julie slept fitfully, dreaming of a tiny delicate baby with Indian features and improbable pale blonde hair. Dr. Rojas was at the clinic, surrounded by nubile young girls and haggard women, old before their time. Everyone was barefoot. They were sick and hungry. She was trying to help, but there was nothing she could do.

She awakened in the morning to the muffled sounds of men’s voices that seemed to be coming from the beach. What could be causing excitement in such a slow, sleepy village? She threw open the shutters and looked out over the ocean. The sun was still lighting up the sky, and a handful of men stood over the inert form of a man who lay on the beach.

Julie grew numb with fright. The head was narrow, the black curly hair cropped short. The men were shaking him, trying to arouse him from slumber. Finally, they turned him over, exposing David’s swollen face

Julie threw on her clothes and flew down the stairs, her bare feet pounding the cement steps. It couldn’t be. Not again.

Gulping air, she ran across the garden past a squawking parrot and found an opening in the hibiscus hedge that bordered the hotel. Fishnets were scattered on the sand near a small wooden boat where a black-haired man knelt beside the body while three others looked on.

One of the men looked up as she approached, and she knew by the morbid expression in his sad droopy eyes that he had just made a grim discovery.

“ What has happened?”

“Don’t come any closer, Senorita. This is a terrible thing to see.” The fisherman moved toward her with upturned palms, vigorously shaking his head back and forth.

“What’s terrible?”

“A man has drowned. Undertow. Very dangerous in this area. He went out too far, he should have known better.”

“Are you sure?” Julie felt her body swaying.

The men lifted their heads in unison, their eyes darkened with pity. She scanned David’s bloated face for signs of some other trauma and examined his pale body for bruises or wounds. But his chest was smooth and unblemished, with just a few tendrils of black hair circling the dark aureole of his nipples. The whites of his eyes stared back at her, unseeing, above unmoving blue lips.

“Is he your friend? Do you know him?” Their voices deepened in sympathy, and they moved closer as if they thought she might faint.

Her face felt stiff. She steadied herself against the trunk of a palm tree, barely able to speak. “I don’t know him at all, except that he drives the van for the tour company.”

“Well, then, Senorita, best you go back to your hotel. This is not a pleasant sight.”

Julie closed her eyes and covered her face with her hands, trying to block the guilty thoughts whirling through her head like a tropical storm. Another death so soon. For the thousandth time she envisioned Kevin's crumpled body against the rich smooth leather seat of his new Porsche. Why hadn’t she realized what would

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