The Mind Pirates (Harbingers Book 10) by Peretti Frank

Author:Peretti, Frank [Peretti, Frank]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Amaris Media International
Published: 2015-12-29T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Zedekiah Snow

Wednesday morning, decked out in seaman’s blouse and with a pirate scarf upon my head, I joined the crew, lending a hand and no small amount of muscle to hauling on the sheets and trimming the sails as the helmsman brought us about. While I had no intention of stooping to their level of savagery, it seemed my nearly breaking Scalarag’s jaw had at least broken the ice and the crew were beginning to accept me, talking freely in my presence. The talk was, we were heading back for St. Clemens to do a Thursday show. What Thatch intended to do with Andi and me once we got there ––or before we got there –– was the foremost question of my day.

While I blended and sweated with the crew, Andi and Captain Thatch stood on the quarterdeck still digging for treasure in her memory.

“It was a money deal,” she recalled, wide-eyed at the dawn of the recollection. “I . . . I mean, Ben . . . met with some people.”

“Who?”

“Two guys, and they offered him a . . . Wow! A million up front, another million after delivery, all transferred into a secret bank account.”

“HA! I can see it plain, the traitor!”

“Ben was trying to get out. They told him something like, It’s all going to go down and you’re going to go down with it unless you get out now. Get out, take the money, and disappear.”

“Get out? Of what?”

Andi cringed as she shared it. “Whatever you pirates are doing.”

“Two men? Who were they? Who were they working for?”

She shook her head. “I don’t know.”

The Captain put a finger in her face. “Faces. Would you know their faces if you saw them?”

She closed her eyes. “I might. I remember an older guy, and some big tough guy like a hit man. I think he was Asian . . . ”

“Names?”

She shook her head. “Maybe they never told me . . . or Ben. But there was something else . . . ” She winced, trying to remember.

“What, lass?”

“Something to do with a banana peel.”

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