To Catch the Setting Sun by Richard I Levine

Author:Richard I Levine [Levine, Richard I]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Hawaii ;Paradise; Suspense; Thriller; Murder
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2022-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Fear not the ocean.

She is neither enemy nor friend.

Watch the duality of her waves,

one moment caressing the sands,

softly molding, reshaping, concealing,

or uncovering with patience and resolve.

The next she is a woman scorned.

Pounding with relentless anger

against the jagged rock and coral.

What was once laid bare for all to see will,

with time, be buried again.

What was once buried will be revealed just the same.

So it is with all things in life.

Set aside your ambivalence,

but fear not the ocean.

She is neither enemy nor friend.

She simply is.

Billy Iona tried to concentrate on the dozen or so messages filling his voicemail box with the same energy he used to ignore the stares his lieutenant threw from the other side of the bullpen. Neither effort was successful nor was it convincing. Iona had become distracted by Mendoza’s sudden obsession of him as much as he was preoccupied about his former partner. For the past several days, the negative energy directed toward Billy was palpable, and it began to weigh heavily on him without reprieve.

Of the many things he disliked about the young lieutenant—country clubs, private school education, access to the best of the island’s offerings throughout his life—it was his political connections and fast-tracked advancement in the police department that was the hardest for him to ignore. He never realized it was the one thing he and Henry had in common. For a number of years, Billy had been looking to cast blame on anyone or anything for his station in life. Although Henry and Hokulani had been favorite targets of his frustrations, when he did think about all the times he’d been passed over for promotion compared to Mendoza’s meteoric rise, he’d find himself fantasizing about situations where he’d have sole dominion over his superior officer’s life:

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“I don’t wanna actually kill him,” he once told a department therapist, “but like I said, sometimes I become so resentful and angry with this man, with this boy, because I’m the one that ends up on the side of the road, and this guy flies by in the fast lane. I get so angry that, if he were lying injured in the street, and I mean life-threatening kind of injured, and I was the only one who could help him, well, I wouldn’t lift a finger. Not one! I’d sit there and watch him suffer. I’d sit there and make sure he knew I was watching him as he pleaded for help…pleaded for his life.”

“And you would actually do this if you had the chance?”

“I don’t know, I don’t think so, but I think about it…sometimes a lot. I’ve asked myself what I would actually do if the situation ever actually happened.”

“And what conclusion do you come to?”

“Well, I…I mean, while I think about him lying there, I don’t ask that question too often. I guess I don’t wanna know the answer. But if it means anything, I do feel a little guilty afterward.”

“Is that because you’re afraid to admit that given the chance you couldn’t fulfill

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