“Yes, I’d ideally not want to go through something like that again,” I agreed, before Cash let my feet down and I slid down his body.
His muscular hard body.
Shaking my head to focus, I peeked around Cash’s arm to see Dylan standing there.
“Sorry, Dylan. I know this wasn’t what you were expecting to do today,” I said.
“No problem, just glad to see everyone is okay,” Dylan said, coming to stand by Beau and lending a hand to pull Luna to a standing position.
“We’ve got to go back on the boat to get to our car. Are you guys okay to leave from here?” Cash asked. I turned to look out at where Trace idled the boat in front of the beach. I could just barely make him out in the glow from Miss Elva’s charm, and I waved to him, wanting to thank him for his help. When I saw his hand shoot up in response, I breathed a sigh of relief.
“I just don’t understand,” I heard Dylan saying as he walked around, trying to figure out the source of the light. Beau clapped him on the shoulder and shook his head.
“Best not to ask too many questions. You’ll learn that pretty quickly if you come down here more often.”
And wasn’t that just the truth of it?
Chapter Thirty-Six
“I can’t believethe environmentalist was the killer,” Luna said. All of us girls were in the car, heading back towards downtown Tequila. I’d agreed to drop Miss Elva and Luna off at Lucky’s, while I was going to stop at home and meet up with Cash for our promised date.
“I could have told you that,” Rafe’s voice was filled with scorn, and we all whipped our heads around to look at where he sat in the back seat.
“What do you mean, you could have told us that?” I asked, annoyance lacing my tone.
“I knew he was the killer,” Rafe said slowly, like it was no big deal.
“Well, why didn’t you say something then?” Luna protested.
Rafe shrugged.
“Nobody asked me.”
And there you have it, folks. Apparently ghosts take everything literally and you have to be very specific with them.
“You’ve got to be kidding me, Rafe. What did you think we were doing all this time?” I asked.
“I don’t know. I wasn’t around half the time you were hunting for the killer. I thought you wanted me to find Horace, anyway.”
“That’s all right, sweetie. We’ll just know to clarify things with you in the future,” Miss Elva soothed and Rafe looked at her, his expression dripping in adoration and love.
“Gag me,” I muttered.
“Now, no need to be angry, child. All’s well that ends well. We’re all safe. You’ve got your man, life is good,” Miss Elva scolded me as I pulled to a stop by Lucky’s.
“Yeah, well, I don’t really know if I’ve got my man. He seemed pretty shaken up by all this magick stuff. And his brother is certainly going to have a story to tell his whole family too,” I said wearily.
Luna squeezed my shoulder sympathetically as she got out of the car.
“Cash is a good guy. Just talk to him about this stuff. Don’t keep him in the dark. I’m sure he’ll be fine with all of it.”
“Thanks, friend. I’m just happy nothing worse happened to you.”
“I’m good. It was scary when he kidnapped me, but I’m okay now. Just a bump on the head. Now, I just really want some food,” Luna said.
Miss Elva looked at me for a moment from the front seat.
“Don’t you hide yourself from that man. If he doesn’t know what he’s got, that’s his own damn fault,” she saidbefore heaving herself out of the front seat and onto the side of the road.
