Thirty-Eight
Thursday, March 25, 9:26 A.M. CST
Tranquility Bay
Soon, Thomas found himself fighting to stay awake as he sat at a table in Tranquility Bay’s common room, watching an educational video—about the invasive, venomous lionfish’s endangerment of Caribbean reef ecology—with Leo, a young teenager from Italy, and his father, who looked like he could be mafia. They were getting certified to hunt the invasive lionfish in the Roatan Marine Park. When he’d agreed to help out Eva’s friend Tess, he’d thought he’d be going for a dive right away, which might wake him up after his long night caring for Soledad, not sitting in a dark room with a teenaged tourist and his father.
He was a pediatrician, so of course he loved kids, and right now it seemed the universe thought that he needed tee
