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“Me either.”
“Gloria from HR might look for me. She really didn’t tell you I was here? She was the one who suggested I find a quiet spot while she told you.”
I hazily recollect Gloria approaching our chairs during the alcohol-infused portion of the afternoon. “It may not have been a good time for such a bit of news.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
“I was drinking with Sarah and her husband.”
“You drink?”
“I’m not the boss all the time.”
“But that suggests you havefun.”
“There are quite a few people in this world who think I should bemoreserious.”
She shifts suddenly, and there’s abonksound. “Owww. Dang it. Rhett Armstrong, don’t say such crazy things when I’m in a small space.”
I keep my chuckle to myself. “You okay? We don’t need a head injury adding to our woes here.”
“I’m fine. And if you got any more serious, you’d be brain surgery.”
I see no reason to enlighten her about my life or my decisions. “The rain has lessened.”
“You going to check things out?”
“I should.”
“How long do you think we’ll be stuck here?”
I glance at my watch. It’s already late afternoon. “Unless someone reports us,andthey think we’re in danger,andthe storm has cleared the area, I’m guessing we’re stuck here for at least a night.”
“A night?”
“And that’s only if they turned the ship around. If they kept going to Freeport, then they’re too far to simply return. Someone will have to come from Florida.”
“But it took a day and a night to gethere!”
“Exactly. So it’s most likely we’ll be discovered when the company returns to this location with another ship.”
“When might that happen?”
“Hard to say.”
She makes another sudden movement, and her head bonks the counter again. “Dang it!”
“We’ll be okay. There’s water.”
“But the signs say not to drink it!”
Oh, so it’s non-potable ocean water. I hadn’t looked, sitting far from the huts. “We’ll figure out a way to make it safe.”
Her voice goes higher in pitch. “But we don’t have a fire to boil it.”
“Bailey, we’ll figure it out. Let me look outside.”
She sniffles. I hesitate, wondering if I should say something comforting, but instead, I push on the cabinet door.
