Beach Town

Author:Mary Kay Andrews
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781466872912
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

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She was just emerging from the shower after the end of another long, hot day, when her phone rang. Greer dove for her cell, which was on the nightstand.

“Hey,” CeeJay said. “I’m at La Parilla, that Mexican take-out place on the other side of the bridge. I thought I’d make it up to you for missing girls’ night out last Friday night. Dinner’s on me. The usual?”

“You’re a lifesaver!” Greer said, flopping down onto the bed. “I was just trying to decide whether my dinner entrée would be Cheez-Its or cottage cheese, because I’m too damn lazy to go find some real food. Yes, the usual, please.”

“I’ll pick up some wine or margaritas, too. Your place or mine?”

“How hot is it outside now?”

“Mmm. It’s cooled down some, and there’s probably a breeze coming off the water. You want to eat by the pool?”

“Sounds good. It’s too depressing eating in my room.”

“See you in fifteen,” CeeJay said.

* * *

Greer and CeeJay’s favorite cheap Mexican restaurant back in L.A. was Candela Taco Bar on LaBrea, which they referred to as Dollar Taco, because they usually met there on Wednesdays, otherwise known as Dollar Taco Night.

CeeJay unloaded Styrofoam containers and foil-wrapped packets from a plastic bag onto the concrete patio table by the pool. It was after eight, and the only other guest in sight was a buff male swimmer making endless laps across the shimmering turquoise waters of the pool.

“They had your fish tacos,” CeeJay said, peeling back the foil on one of the packets. “But they looked at me like I was crazy when I asked about a creamed corn one. So I got you a chicken special.”

“Chips and guac too, right?”

“Of course,” CeeJay said. “Green salsa for me. And,” she said, with a triumphant flourish, “premixed margaritas!”

She placed a container that looked like a waxed milk carton on the table and produced two plastic cups. “Sorry. They’ve got some crazy liquor laws in this county, so this was the best I could do.”

Greer couldn’t speak, because her mouth was full of fish taco. Instead, she nodded enthusiastically. “Not bad,” she said, when she’d finished chewing. “I’d kill for a Candela spicy shrimp taco. But then, anything’s better than Cheez-Its. Again.”

CeeJay poured them each a cup full of the margarita mix, then attacked her own dinner.

They were both so hungry they didn’t even start gossiping until both had destroyed their first tacos.

Greer dabbed at a bit of sour cream on her lower lip. “How’s it going with Bryce? Have you been together at all?”

“You mean have I slept with him this week? No. But he texted me while I was at the restaurant. He wants to have me over to dinner tomorrow night, which probably means he wants to have me. Which is okay with me. How’s your week been?”

“Nuts. Bryce and Terry have apparently trashed the original script—what there was of it. Now, they’ve gone in a completely different direction. Bryce loves what he’s seen so far, so I guess that’s good.

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