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"Letin her tote and took out the box that carried the mermaid pendant

He took it and stared at it, and then at her

"What?" she de about the way he looked at her made her shiver

"I just saw this sao by the vendors?" she asked Her voice seeht she knew his answer before he spoke, and she was oddly afraid without knohy

"This is the piece you found at the shipwreck site the other day Where the Santa Geneva went down It’s--it’s the exact piece," he said at last

They were at O’Hara’s, where they had run into Katie and David Sean had gotten Vanessa the promised Irish coffee It was delicious At O’Hara’s, there were equal parts Irish whiskey and Draenerous dollop of real whipped creaht was pleasantly cool with a southwesterly breeze,suit, and the da, and she was certain that her hair looked like windblown spiderwebs If they were all about to take part in filet accustoly hteen or twenty-four karat, with rubies and sapphires, it’s worth a reed

"What will you do with it?" Katie asked

"Do with it?" Vanessa said blankly "Well, I don’t actually see it as mine I was on a trial run for the film when I happened upon it I don’t know--it should be in a h It should really belong to Sean and David, I think Isn’t that the way it works when you’re working for someone? Like Mel Fisher had all kinds of divers, but the finds were his--right?"

Sean laughed "After he fought the state for a decade," he said "But he won Nowadays, in territorial waters, it’s twenty-five percent to the state The rest is yours Jaden was beside herself with excite I haven’t had a chance to get over and see it in person yet All I have is the picture she sent to ht, so she locked it up tight We’ll go and see it in person in the "

"Wonderful," Vanessa said She wasn’t sure it onderful at all She wished that she hadn’t found it She could only iend, Dona Isabella hadn’t died on the ship--she had been murdered with the others on Haunt Island, probably by Kitty Cutlass In the movie script, she’d written in a spectacular scene of the beauty floating in the water It was unlikely that had been the case--Dona Isabella’s bones were somewhere beneath the sands of Haunt Island

Kitty Cutlass had most probably perished in the storm

"Yes, that sounds fine," Vanessa said

"Oh my God!" Katie said "You don’t sound excited Vanessa, that’s a real historical find It’s a I’ve been on those reefs allfroh, class of ’75 Hey, this is…treasure!"

Vanessa set to work," Katie said She rolled her eyes

"I’o to Sean’s and see what Jay has done with the footage we took this ," David said "Katie…do you hed and touched David’s face tenderly "I worked here long before you caether, so thanks"

She went off to introduce her show; a blonde girl aiting i

"So let’s head down to e," Vanessa said, slipping from her stool She paused "Thank you, Sean, the Irish coffee was delicious"

"Glad you enjoyed it," Sean said, standing, as well "Don’t you want to see the footage? I put sori "I really need to shower and change"

"That’s easy enough We’ll walk by your place, and I’ll wait for you"

"No, no, that’s all right It will take me a few minutes"

"Not a problem," David assured her

"Sure--we haven’t looked in the T-shirt shop s for a while," Sean said, but he was s out and listen, and when you’re ready, head to ," she told hiet it in theThere won’t be anyplace to park on lower Duval I’ve left it before--it will be fine"

Duval was crazy at night, with al in Key West, andin a leather-bound drinking vessel of soreat and truly played the part

"Hey, ouldn’t be hard put to find extras, if ere fil pirate scene," Sean said dryly

"It’s happened every year for about a decade," Vanessa said "No surprise there"<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>