The Long Island Iced Tea Goodbye: Career Crisis Café Mystery 1 by Selby Emily

Author:Selby, Emily
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-04T00:00:00+00:00

8

Heather woke up. The room was dark and quiet. She checked her watch.

It was quarter past midnight. Or a quarter after eight in the morning, New York time.

Last time she visited New Zealand it took her a week to get over the jetlag. An awfully long time for someone who needed her brain to be in top form ASAP.

She'd have to power through it, but first she needed the bathroom.

She clambered out of bed and visited the little ensuite bathroom, which smelled of damp. She'd have to get a dehumidifier, as her mother advised her. She didn't like humidity. It made her feel as though she was breathing in soup.

Heather opened the little window and secured it with a window stopper. Like her bedroom window, it gave a fantastic view of the bay. The rocks in the sand shimmered in a silver light. She glanced at the sky. After a fairly overcast day, the night sky was clearing, and the nearly full moon was peering through a gap in the clouds.

It looked like someone else was enjoying the ambience. There were two, maybe three silhouettes bobbing up and down behind one of the rocks.

What were they doing there?

Heather returned to her bedroom. She pulled the curtains back a little and grabbed the binoculars.

"It's too dark to see anything," she whispered to herself. But it looked as if someone was exercising on the beach. Maybe someone who didn't like crowds or the sun.

Maybe even late-night walkers, dog walkers? It could have been two people, or a person and a large dog. It was hard to tell from this distance, and in poor light.

She need to go back to sleep and could ask James in the morning.

She tossed and turned for the rest of the night, catching little naps. Once the sky began to lighten she got up.

At least this time she’d been able to stay in bed until nearly 6 AM. A vast improvement on the day before.

She went downstairs and set up the coffee maker. She’d been meaning to search for the espresso machine yesterday but got busy with Chrissy. And then she was too tired and had to go down for a nap. After a quick dinner improvised from what she could find in the fridge and in the cupboard, she decided she had done enough and allowed herself an early night.

This morning, she was going to do some serious thinking about the future. Her own, as well as the café's. But first, coffee. Next on the list, a walk on the beach. After all, she hadn't come only to toil. She came here to enjoy life as well.

With her second cup of coffee in hand, dressed for a morning walk, Heather left the café. The sun was just emerging from above the horizon and the air felt fresh, if not chilly.

She hugged her cardigan with the free hand, sipping on the coffee she held in the other.

Her mother would certainly disapprove of that, insisting that walking on the beach with a mug in your hand looked silly.

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