“Ma’am, I appreciate your concern, but the decision isn’t mine to make. I’m just the doctor. My captain is the type of person who doesn’t change her mind easily, so it’s easier to go along with whatever she wants to do, however crazy it may be,” Jones politely said with a smile, raising his glass and having another drink of his rum.

“Now you said her father was kicked out of town? Do you know where he went?” Jones had to imagine that Taimi would be near where her father was, or if not, someone who knew where she went would be.