TWENTY-NINE
For the next two nights, the men went out. They’d get ready and disembark not long after dinner and wouldn’t be back until the wee hours. Jockey and Fidget stayed onboard with her and Karen. They played cards and board games. It often seemed that the two men had been tasked with distracting the women from worrying about their absent men.
Even when the crew was onboard, they had private meetings and talked in whispers. Sassi had asked Swain and her brother to promise that they weren’t into anything illegal or planning to confront Dario. After assuring her that they weren’t, they both told her not to ask any more questions.
It didn’t reassure her that her captain and her brother were singing from the same hymn sheet. It just made their responses seem rehearsed. But she had to
