Tides of Time (The Legacy Book 1) by Luna Joya

Author:Luna Joya [Joya, Luna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781949090468
Publisher: City Owl Press
Published: 2019-08-20T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

“That’s incredible.” Sam slid more cilantro rice across the table to Mina, who had already devoured the tacos, street corn, and carne asada fries he’d had delivered from a local trendy place. She’d chronicled what she’d seen through Sunny Sol’s eyes at the old Brown Derby. “To be able to see history. To live it.”

“I don’t live it.” Mina shook the hot sauce bottle with a vengeance. “I’m not actually there. They can’t see or hear me. I only get one person’s impressions of the moment. It’s not for real time travel.”

“You sense what Sunny was thinking. You’re in her head. Can you not see how amazing that is?”

Cami patted his thigh. She’d picked through some ceviche while they listened but didn’t say much. “Mina’s been doing this her entire life. What is a true marvel for us is her normal. It’s overwhelming to us outsiders, but not to her.”

“But it’s like a peephole into the past.” He put an arm around her shoulders. “This is science fiction stuff. I can’t even imagine what it’s like to experience that for a day. Let alone an entire lifetime.”

“I’m getting better at it.” Mina grinned, apparently not completely immune to his flattery, and shoveled down rice.

Cami smiled. “Yes, you are.” She tucked her legs beneath the robe on the seat next to him.

He refused to let either of them trivialize Mina’s slip. “You know exactly what Sunny is observing, what she’s feeling.”

“Sunny had this intense fear of the man, and still she couldn’t resist goading him on. I could have peeked in his head, but I got enough from Sunny and her sass.”

Cami agreed. “That fits with our research as far as her personality. You’re saying what you saw through Sunny’s eyes in this slip happened a few months before her death?”

Mina nodded. “He told Sunny he’d open a few gaming tables upstairs above her restaurant. Sunny said something like ‘over my dead body,’ and Felix Fortuno told her that can be arranged. So Sunny told him to go tread water to his barge or crawl back to Vegas since it’d turned out so well the last time.”

Sam scratched his jaw before glancing at Cami, who nodded. He reached for his phone, ran a quick search, and showed a photo of Felix Fortuno to Mina. “That him?”

“No.” Mina frowned. She took the photo and zoomed in on the image. “The mouth and nose are wrong. The hairline too.”

“Not Felix Fortuno.”

Mina sputtered in response. “But he talked about making her see the value of the profit they’d make off illegal gambling. He threatened her. He came off total mobster. Sunny didn’t think or say his name, but if he wasn’t Felix Fortuno, who the hell was he?”

He understood why Mina was pissed off. Based on what she’d said, she’d tried so hard, fought until she was exhausted to isolate that one moment in history. “He wore a hat? At the table? Inside the restaurant?”

“Yeah. And a suit. A nice one.”

“Any real man wore a suit in those days.

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