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IKE headed in the direction of the port, glancing at me out of the corner of his eyes. “If she’s not your woman, why do you keep sleeping with her?”
“Yeah, he’s got a point,” Kavanaugh said. “You know, it’s okay to love.”
“Fuck you,” I snapped.
“Seriously, what do you have against love?” IRIS asked. “Love is like…the most uplifting feeling in the world. You’d die for that person, just to know she’s happy.”
“And that’s uplifting?” I asked. “To die a hard, horrible death just so you know someone else is going to live?”
He frowned at me. “What’s the difference between what you do now and that? At least it would be for someone you knew. Are you seriously telling me you’d rather die for some Joe Shmoe?”
“At least Joe Shmoe can feel guilty for the rest of his life, knowing that a stranger died for him,” I snapped. “I don’t want my potential wife to feel overwhelming guilt, knowing she got me killed.”
“I say it’s the best way to go,” Kavanaugh nodded. “Think about it. It’s like…eternal revenge. For everything you ever did to fuck up, what can she really say about you that’s negative?”
“He’s got a point,” Scottie agreed. “He always forgot to take the trash out.”
“Yeah, but he did take that bullet in the gut for you and die an excruciating death,” Kavanaugh finished.
“See?” Scottie grinned. “There is literally nothing bad she can ever say about you for the rest of her life. It’s like…a get out of jail free card.”
I stared at him like he was an idiot. “Yeah, and all it costs me is my life. I don’t actually get to witness her overwhelming guilt or laugh every time she tries to talk bad about me…because I’ll be dead.”
“Right, well…no scenario is perfect.”
We pulled up to the docks, spotting the Jeep immediately. There was no sign of Sarah anywhere in sight, and the boat that was docked here was already fading in the distance. I got out and ran over to another man working the docks.
“Hey, do you know where that boat is heading?”
He huffed out a laugh. “You’re not a local, are you?”
“Um…no.”
“That’s headed to another island.”
“And that’s funny?”
“Son, that’s what they call the ladies’ boat.”
I nodded in understanding. “So, it’s an escort service.”
“If you want to call it that. I’d call it more like a slave trade.”
Okay, I clearly had this all wrong. “Um…what?”
“Son, that boat carries the lonely women around town to a new location where they’ll be traded into sex slavery. Everyone knows that.”
“Clearly not everyone, or I would know,” I gritted out. “Did you happen to see a woman about this tall,” I said, holding up my hand, “driving that Jeep?”
He glanced at where I pointed and then nodded. “Yep, she walked on willingly.” He chuckled to himself. “Bet she didn’t see her future going that way.”
I ignored the crazy man and ran back to the vehicle. “She’s on the boat. It’s going to another island.”
“So, we’ll catch up with her there,” Scottie shrugged.
“It’s a boat for sex slaves.”
“So, we’ll blow them up,” IRIS grinned, rubbing his hands together. “Man, this job just keeps getting better and better.”
