In Lust with my Sexy Boss
Its significance: mother’s, Aria’s and inheritor location.
Reyes’s voice cracked: “That property… has been missing for years.”
I looked at Aria. “You want to go?”
She nodded. “We have to.”
We set out that night, lights low, accompanied by Reyes and her partner, both armed. The pilot from the floatplane diverted our flight to Marshford Island.
The ride was tense. I sat beside Aria, her hand in mine, the compass between us.
The island appeared like a ghost, old pier, caved dock, grey-stone building half swallowed by tangled ivy. The typewriter keys of my father’s voice whispered: “Her world is here too.”
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