Wrong Turn (Paradise Crime Mysteries Book 14) by Toby Neal

Author:Toby Neal [Neal, Toby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Neal Enterprises, Inc
Published: 2020-12-03T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Lei woke gently to the sound of doves in the citrus tree outside her room, and the smell of orange blossoms. She stretched out on the hotel’s luxurious sheets, sliding her naked body along the silky fabric. All of her nerve endings felt pleasantly abuzz with sensation, and she sighed, remembering Cruz walking her to her door, the soft kiss goodbye on her lips, the finger he then held to them as he winked one of those remarkable eyes.

Good. She didn’t want to tell anyone about their encounter, either.

Getting up, Lei padded over to her laptop and turned it on. While that was booting up, she took a shower. She’d taken one last night too, just a brief rinse to get the salt off, but sleeping on her curly hair wet was never a good idea, and today was no exception.

A few minutes later, wearing one of the hotel’s pristine terry cloth robes, she sat down in front of the computer and typed in ‘kundalini.’ Webster’s defined the word as “the yogic life force that is held to lie coiled at the base of the spine until it is aroused and sent to the head to trigger enlightenment.”

Lei smiled. She’d been enlightened, all right. She had a sense that everything they’d done had been part of some spiritual discipline that Cruz was well-versed in.

Lei surfed through the local news, looking for anything about the bodies and the burned building. Eventually she found a small article and dragged the main paragraph into a translation program: “Three trespassers in the abandoned El Central Copper Mine were found burned in a kerosene accident involving alcohol. The public is reminded to stay away from private property.”

“Ha,” Lei said aloud. “Yes.” The day was getting better and better.

The phone rang by her bed and she picked it up. “Hello?”

“It’s Harry. Come have coffee with me. Cruz has taken Kelly out for a crash course in self-defense, so the baby and I want company.”

“Sure. Meet you by the pool?”

“Perfect.” The woman hung up.

Lei looked at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were bright, her cheeks flushed, and with a little gel in her hair, her curls were behaving. She’d never looked better.

Something inside her had shifted—she was ready.

Ready to open her heart to someone—perhaps a dog. She smiled at that idea.

Lei dressed in the bikini Kelly had bought her when she purchased Harry’s dress yesterday. She liked the sporty two-piece, cut high on the hip but more modest than the skimpy triangles Kelly was fond of. The bronzy color splashed with flowers complemented Lei’s olive skin tone and brown locks. She tied the matching pareo around her hips, slid her feet into slippers, and left the room.

Harry was already in the pool, swimming laps with that fluid way she had of moving, and no one else was around yet. The baby lay peacefully in her carrier, gazing up at the tree overhead, a tiny fist that had escaped from her blanket waving. Kona, vigilant beside

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