Forty-Two
Friday, March 26, 10:11 A.M. CST
Offshore from Roatan
It seems like I’m the only one around here not getting a day off.
Thomas was back on the deep cobalt water, surrounded by buckets of the previous night’s lionfish catch. Tess was really working him hard: even after two late nights, she’d asked him to take out guests from her resort again, and this was a bigger group than yesterday. They were on the Aggressor today; since it was Ruben’s day off, Mel had agreed to take the group out on his boat. It seemed to Thomas that Mel was just happy to have an excuse to get his baby out on the water.
Apparently, today’s dive group was the same group that had witnessed Miguel’s incident with the eel, and Tess was eager to get them out again and replace that awful experience with a more
