Immortal Billionaire by Jane Godman

Author:Jane Godman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-11-08T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Sylvester found Roberto working on the launch. “When you took the guests over to Charlotte Harbor the other day, what did they do?”

Roberto wiped his oily hands on a cloth. “They split up and went their separate ways. Lucinda went shopping, but she said she didn’t buy anything interesting. She complained the shops were provincial and boring. I think Guthrie found a bar. Jonathan and Matt both wandered around and did their own thing.”

“Did either of them mention what their own thing might have been?”

Roberto shook his head. “No. Jonathan never says much, anyway, but I did think he was even more quiet than usual that day. It was just after Ellie had gone missing, so it wasn’t surprising. On the way back, Matt was asking me about fishing. Neither of them mentioned what they’d been doing in Charlotte Harbor. Why?”

Roberto might be an employee, but he’d worked for Sylvester for long enough, and knew him well enough, to be able to ask that question. “Just wondering if any of them could have purchased a cell phone jammer in that time.”

He whistled. “I’m not sure it’s the sort of thing you could just walk into a store and pick up over the counter. Not a decent one, anyway. Not that I’ve ever tried. But if someone had ordered one in advance, by phone or internet, to be delivered to a specific address in Charlotte Harbor, then he or she could have collected it that day. It’s a small, portable item. I don’t imagine he or she would have had any trouble organizing it at short notice.”

“Was anyone carrying anything that could have been the jammer?”

“Sorry, boss. It could have been any one of them. They were all carrying bags with them on the way back, but I can’t remember the names of the stores they’d been to. What makes you think they bought it that day?”

“Maybe I’m wrong and whoever is using it had it with them all along, but the jammer has only been used since that trip to Charlotte Harbor. And the other things—the damage to the boats and the satellite dish—all happened at the same time. I’m working on the theory this is something that came to him while he was here, rather than something he intended to do all along.”

“And does that matter?” Roberto picked up a screwdriver, preparing to get back to work.

Sylvester shrugged. “Maybe not.”

In many ways, it didn’t matter. In any conventional sense, it made no difference at all. But this was Corazón, and Sylvester was a de León, so it mattered to him on a fundamental, primeval level. Because it meant whoever was doing this might have arrived on Corazón with no evil intentions. It meant that, over time, the curse had worked its dark magic yet again.

Corazón de Malicia. Heart of Malice.

As he walked back to the house, he drank in the tranquil beauty of his tropical island paradise. He didn’t see the white sands, turquoise seas and waving palms.

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