Chapter Five
“Can I get you another coffee?”
Billy Jo, who had been typing on her laptop, answering emails, and waiting for Carly Thornton to arrive, looked up to the young woman standing beside her table. She had long blond hair in a high ponytail, slender, tall, and cute. After one latte and then a regular coffee, Billy Jo was sweating from the caffeine high.
“No, actually, could I just get a glass of water?” she replied. “Hey, is school out here at three thirty?”
She wondered whether she had the time wrong, but then, knowing how understaffed schools were, she suspected the teachers usually left later than the kids.
“The elementary school is out at three twenty,” the waitress said. “You have kids there? You must be new to the island. I don’t recognize you.” She had a really nice smi
