Last Dance at Jitterbug Lounge (That Business Between Us Book 4) by Morsi Pamela

Author:Morsi, Pamela [Morsi, Pamela]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Gnarly Wool Publshing
Published: 2019-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

14

Bud

On the sea at night the predators come. Across the water tiny microscopic plants that live there have a phosphorous glow. Anything that disturbs the water shows in the dark depths like a beacon attracting those that feed. I sat in my tiny raft, less than a flyspeck on a giant ocean, wishing myself smaller. I knew what the monsters of the deep could do. I’d watched them eat Lt. Randel. He was dead already. He couldn’t feel a thing. It was only the remains of his body bobbing on the surface. I was at quite a distance by then and what my eyes mostly viewed was a thrashing of water as they swarmed him. My imagination filled in the details. And a bump underneath the raft sent me screaming, screaming, screaming.

I heard the other voice. I was not screaming alone. Was it Randel? No, no, of course it wasn’t, I realized, as the sun streamed in upon the chenille bedspread that covered me. It was J.D.

Geri came rushing into the bedroom, the baby in her arms.

“I didn’t mean to wake you,” she said, her eyes wide. It was a fearful look. My dreams and my screams scared her. But she never ran from them, from me. She was still that defiant little waif with her upturned chin daring Piggy Masterson to try to get the best of her.

“I’m so sorry,” she said. “I don’t know what’s wrong with him. He may be teething or coming down with a cold. I think he’s too big for colic.”

I threw back the covers. It was a chilly fall day, but the dreams had left me wringing wet with sweat. I climbed out of bed.

“You haven’t slept long enough,” Geri cautioned. “You need at least a couple more hours before you’ve rested enough to work. I don’t want you getting a hand caught in those presses.”

“I’ll catch another nap later,” I lied. Sleep was my biggest enemy. If I never had to close my eyes again, I could be happy with that. “Give the little guy to me. We’ll walk the floor together.”

Geri handed me the baby. The furious little fellow was reluctant to let go of his mama. He looked up at me with Geri’s eyes and her determined chin. Then, as if he’d thrown a switch, thrust himself into my embrace and clung to me, crying miserably.

“Oh yeah, poor little guy. Are you having a hard time, today? I know exactly how you feel.”

I bounced him slightly in my arms as we walked.

“You go on and do what you have to do, Crazy Girl,” I told her. “We men will take ourselves a short stroll through the garden.”

She winked at me and stood on her tiptoes to give the baby a tiny kiss on the forehead.

It’s strange when you realize later how one thing affects another thing, and that affects something else, until your whole life turns out to be different than you thought it might be.

Because the bad dreams affected my sleeping, I decided to take a night job.

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