At Lighthouse Point by Suzanne Woods Fisher

Author:Suzanne Woods Fisher [Fisher, Suzanne Woods]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance;Love Stories;FIC042040;FIC027020;FIC027000
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2021-03-30T00:00:00+00:00

Paul and Cam followed Peg over to the diner. They sat on the red stools at the counter while Blaine finished cleaning up.

Paul eyed the English muffins cooling on a tray. “Can I buy one to take home for breakfast?”

Blaine pointed to one that was slightly burned. “You can have that, Dad. First one, worst one.”

He grinned. “Works for me.” He loved to be around when Blaine was baking.

“How’d the meeting go?” Blaine asked. “It was . . . shorter than expected.”

“Terrible,” Cam said with a sigh. “Awful. Worse than I could have ever imagined. The telecom carrier representative said that he’d never been to a public forum that was so contentious.” Cam covered her face with her hands. “What made it so contentious?”

“You really don’t know?” Peg said.

Cam dropped her hands. “No.”

“You.”

Paul looked at Peg, shocked. Cam slapped her hand against her chest. “Me?”

“Cam, honey, you can’t go around saying the kinds of things you say in a small town. Locals are very territorial.”

“What things?”

“Just the other day you were sitting right in that booth”—Peg jabbed a thumb behind her—“and you called our island ‘Back of Beyond.’”

“I was working on a presentation to the telecom company.”

Blaine whirled around. “I remember. I was refilling coffee and you yelled at me from across the room to ask what I thought of the title—‘Back of Beyond into the Twenty-First Century.’”

Paul tipped an eyebrow Cam’s way. “You said that?”

“I didn’t yell,” Cam huffed. “I was asking Blaine if she thought it would be considered offensive.”

“And it was,” Peg said. Even Paul could detect a slight frostiness to her tone.

“I told her I didn’t know what she meant by it,” Blaine said. “I’d never heard it.”

“Back of Beyond,” Peg said, “is a mean way of calling Three Sisters Island a dull, unimportant place. There was a big heated discussion about it in here after you left.”

“Oh,” Cam said in a flat tone.

Peg wasn’t done. “A couple of days ago you told Captain Ed that he should change the name of his ferry from Never Late to Never Around When You Need It.”

“Oh Cam,” Paul said. “You didn’t.” Captain Ed was very sensitive about his ferry.

Cam folded her hands on top of her belly. “Please. You all have to admit that the ferry is very unreliable. Peg, even you can’t deny that.”

“It’s part of the island’s charm.”

“Charm?” Cam scoffed. “Not when you have a meeting to get to on the mainland.”

Peg kept her blue eyes fixed on Cam. “Running down our dear old Captain Ed, who works so hard and so faithfully, got the locals grumbling. Me along with them.”

“But I’m a local too!”

Peg lifted a shoulder in a slight shrug. “You’re a resident, not a local.”

Cam lifted her hands up in frustration. “Three years I’ve lived here now! I’m married to the local schoolteacher. My dad owns the local camp. I’m here to stay. I’m doing all I can to improve the daily life of this island. What will it take to be accepted as a local?”

“Locals have been here for generations.

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