Fallen Mangrove (Jesse McDermitt Series Book 5) by Wayne Stinnett

Author:Wayne Stinnett [Stinnett, Wayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Down Island Press
Published: 2014-09-28T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

While waiting for our food, I called Kim to let her know we’d arrived in Nassau safely. After a moment of talking, I noticed one of the couples at the next table seemed to be paying a little too much attention to my conversation. I really don’t like nosy people, so I cut the call short, promising to call her from Elbow Cay tomorrow about noon.

When we’d finished our meal, we said goodnight and split up, agreeing to a 0700 departure time. I took a mug of coffee up to the bridge and sat watching the comings and goings in the marina. I would have liked a beer, but whenever I was in a place I wasn’t real familiar with, I steered clear. I watched as the two couples that had sat at the table next to us came out of the restaurant. As they began walking around the marina to the far side, following the same path Deuce and the others had taken minutes before, it struck me as odd when they seemed intentionally not to look my way. The Revenge is a head turner in any marina and people have nearly walked off the docks looking at her graceful lines. Something about these four just didn’t sit right with me.

I called Deuce and he answered on the first ring. “How do you make them?” he asked, as if he were sitting right next to me and making the same observations. He was a lot like his dad in that respect. Russ and I could carry on whole conversations with just a glance and a nod.

“The redhead and the guy she’s hanging all over were eavesdropping when I called Kim. Neither man looks armed. They’re taking the same path out of the marina you did, about fifty meters behind you.”

“We’ve doubled back from the far side of the office. Should pass them any second.” Then he started talking to me as though to an employee. “I’ll be there in a minute, Captain. I don’t know why you can’t seem to handle it yourself.”

Knowing they were walking past the two couples, I played with him a little. “Swabbing the deck is for squids, I have your swab and bucket ready.”

A moment later he said, “They seemed surprised and tried real hard to not look at us.”

“They did the same thing leaving the Parrot,” I said. “Something’s not right with them.”

A few minutes later, everyone was back aboard the Revenge, gathered in the salon. Comparing mental notes from the restaurant, it seemed the two couples came up on Doc and Tony’s radar also. This didn’t surprise me: both men had served in Iraq and Afghanistan, where every person on the street is a potential combatant.

“It wasn’t so much how they acted or what they did,” Tony said, “more like how they didn’t act and what they didn’t do.”

As the two couples approached them, Julie had pretended to take a picture of the marina with her wide-angle digital camera and managed to get all four in the shot.

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