Titanoboa
“The home lay far enough in the jungle that it took almost half an hour of driving on bumpy dirty roads to get out here. Though he’d been on several tours of the jungle before, in general, he stayed away from it.
Riki stepped out of the passenger side. Mark had tried to tell her he worked alone, but she insisted on coming, reminding him who was paying for this investigation. Under normal circumstances, he might’ve just told her to find someone else, but he couldn’t pass up so much money. Not when he had a chance, a real chance, to get his daughter.
“You’ve never been here?” Riki asked.
“No. Stanley never liked anyone up here. I only actually spent time with him once. He was fixing his boat motor, and I brought out a couple beers. We sat on the beach and talked for maybe five minutes, and that was it. When the beer was empty, he went back to the motor. He didn’t enjoy other people.”
“That must’ve been lonely,” she said as they walked up the small path to the front door.
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