Joanna Wayne - A Clandestine Affair

She left her cover and stepped back to the path. When he noticed her, she gave a wave.

“Good morning,” he said, tipping a Miami Dolphins cap. He seemed friendly and normal enough.

“Same to you. Are you a new tenant?”

“No. I’m a friend of Carlos and Alma, just here for a day or two.”

Who’d have guessed they socialized?

The man dropped the cigar and ground it out with the toe of his boot. “Enrique Lopez,” he said, walking toward her. “I’m sure we’ve never met. I would remember a woman as beautiful as you.”

“I’m Jaci,” she said, “a tenant.”

“A pleasure to meet you.” He took her hand and held it for a few seconds before kissing her fingertips.

The guy’s lines probably worked as often as not. He wasn’t bad looking for a middle-aged man. He had that pirate thing going on with the whiskered chin and dark, unruly hair.

“Are you going somewhere in particular, Jaci, or are you just out for a morning walk?”

“I’m on my way to the boathouse to find Carlos.”

“I just left there, and there was no sign of him.”

“He may be at the villa,” she said.

“I hope he is. That way I can surprise both him and Alma at once.”

“They don’t know you’re here?”

“Not yet. I got in late so I slept on my boat last night. It’s docked on the southern end of the island, in the deepwater cove.”

“Why didn’t you use the dock?”

“It is a very large yacht.”

“How did you meet Alma and Carlos?” she asked, still trying to picture the strange couple socializing.

“I had engine trouble on my yacht a few years back. I docked, Carlos fixed it for me, and we hit it off. Now this has become my haven.”

Cape Diablo as a haven. Jaci tried but couldn’t get that image to gel. “I guess I’ll see you around,” she said.

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