Baffled at the Beach (Maile Spencer Honolulu Tour Guide Mysteries Book 2) by Kay Hadashi

Author:Kay Hadashi [Hadashi, Kay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-19T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Maile knew it was within minutes of eight o’clock when she heard that morning’s spat being waged in the hall in front of her door. Keeping her eyes closed, she turned her face the other direction on the pillow. When the spat continued longer than usual, she got up and when to the front door.

“You guys mind? People are still trying to sleep,” she said to the couple.

The wife put on a bright but insincere smile. “Hi Maile! Sorry we’re so noisy! We’re almost done.”

Latching the door, Maile went back to bed. But that had put an end to her sleep for that morning. All she could do was think of the marital spats she’d suffered at the hands of her husband. After the revelations of his infidelities at the bar with two different women, she had more reason than ever to be angry. She did her best to will away those feelings, trying to replace them with happier thoughts. All she could come up with was the memory of spending half an hour with a nice guy at McDonald’s.

She didn’t have actual errands to run that morning, but had phone calls to make and her apartment to clean. She’d been getting almost daily reminder calls from the dentist’s office, and needed to find a way of shutting them up. Her little convenience fridge needed stocking, and she still needed to find her fan, the one that contained five thousand dollars in cash. It had to be somewhere, and if she needed to turn the thumbscrews on Mrs. Taniguchi to get her to remember who the stolen fan was given to, so be it.

Then there was the matter of Maui’s Paddle. As she lay staring at the water stain on the ceiling, she wondered if she was chasing her tail like Lei-lei had suggested. It was simply a legend, not much more than a clever bedtime story, about how the demi-god Maui had been a lazy fisherman, taking his duty carelessly at the back of the canoe while his brothers paddled and fished. Then one day, he somehow snagged the bottom of the ocean and after a long struggle, pulled up an island. With a second try at catching a fish, he pulled up another island, and another, finally quitting after the archipelago now known as the Hawaiian Islands was formed. It was a fantastic story, no matter how examined. For an educated adult dwelling in the real world, there was no other choice but to dismiss it as folklore.

But some things are too big to be let go so easily.

Feeling her belly begin to ache for a meal, and knowing there was still half a McDonald’s cheeseburger in the fridge, she went to the kitchen. Sitting at her little table with the burger and a glass of mango juice, she pulled the top half of the bun off her prize. Sticking it down again, she took a bite and washed that down with juice.

“Oh, yeah. Life at its best.

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