Death of a Texan by Cat Hickey

Author:Cat Hickey [Hickey, Cat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: darkstroke books
Published: 2021-04-29T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

The ride to Liberia is, for the most part, silent. After the walk to the truck from the Club Pacifica lobby, there just doesn’t seem to be much to say.

It’s not an awkward silence, or a hostile one. Just a quiet kind of quiet.

They’d said everything that needed to be said after leaving Mateo, standing there, stock still and looking shocked, there on the marble floor of the lobby overlooking the pool. They’d said nothing until they’d made it to the other side of the lobby and down the front stairs. The truck was visible, parked on the far end of the ‘U’ shaped drive that led up to the resort.

There, out of view of Mateo, Patty had paused and grabbed Chloe by the arm, forcing her to stop as well. Patty was normally not a nosy sort of person, but there was obviously no way even she could walk into the scene that she’d come upon and say nothing about it.

“Do I even want to know?” Patty had asked bluntly.

Chloe shook her head quickly, and swiped away the last of the tears running down her cheeks. She tried to pull her arm from Patty’s grasp and walk off towards the truck, but Patty was having none of it. Her fingers tightened around Chloe’s arm even tighter and she fixed her with the sort of look that seemed like it could see right through to a person’s soul. Chloe had squirmed a bit under the scrutiny.

“Seriously. You can’t not tell me what that whole little scene in there was about.”

And so Chloe had told her. Everything. From her misgivings in the morning, to the things Jaime had told her, to what she’d seen Mateo doing at the pool. She’d told her how they were done, finished, how she wanted nothing to do with him, ever again. She’d told her that she hated him, despised him, never wanted to see him again. She’d hate his guts forever, she’d said, and she’d never, ever, ever forgive him.

Chloe had been completely surprised by Patty’s reaction. She’d thought that Patty would have understood. She’d thought that Patty, that any woman, really, would have instantly taken her side on this. But Patty had not.

Nor had she taken Mateo’s side. In fact, it had seemed to Chloe that she hadn’t seen the need to take sides at all, but she’d done it in such a way that Chloe had been unable to take offense to her friend’s ambiguity on the matter, even though she’d been confused by it.

The thing was that Patty hadn’t understood why Chloe was so upset by what Mateo had done. She’d said that it didn’t sound so bad to her. She’d told Chloe that she wouldn’t have been mad if it had been Juan who’d been the one rubbing oil all over another woman’s body. She’d even echoed what Mateo had said; that this was his job, that he had to be friendly with the tourists. She’d wondered why Chloe would

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