Twenty
Sunday, December 19
Bailey's Key
While they waited for Cleo to return, Charlie and Ruben decided to fish some more with Luis Junior, off the back of the Aggressor, right there at Bailey’s Key. The young boy’s father had been a hand-reel fisherman before he was lost to the Lusca, and Luis Junior had subsequently discovered a love of fishing thanks to Mel, who had been teaching him everything he needed to know.
Eva was watching them when Soledad came up to her side. “Should we do something more for Luis Junior? Maybe a speech pathologist could help him?”
Luis Junior wasn’t talking—just as he hadn’t talked for a long time after the death of his father. He’d found his voice again earlier in the year after their adventure with the Lusca, but with Romina gone, he’d lapsed into his ol
