Bitten on the Beach by Stacey Alabaster

Author:Stacey Alabaster [Alabaster, Stacey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2018-11-09T00:00:00+00:00

“I think Alyson might be right…” My voice was low as we walked away from the studio. Now that I’d sold the Porsche, I had to walk everywhere. Well, that wasn’t quite true. I still took a cab about twice a day to save myself from having to walk more than five minutes. “Something fishy is going on with the press. Alex Higgins was hiding something.”

Bianca shrugged. She glanced back over her shoulder. “I thought Alex was a nice guy. Even kind of cute in an unusual way.”

Maybe her standards were slipping now that she was spending time in Eden Bay.

“She’s right. There’s some kind of conspiracy.” No one in the Eden Baby press could be trusted as far as I was concerned. But of course Bianca wanted to date one of them. She pulled the number out of her pocket and entered it into her phone. I even saw her send a quick text that said, ‘hey now you have my number,’ but I looked away and pretended that I hadn’t. Maybe she was just interested in the job.

We’d found ourselves wandering toward the beach in the middle of the afternoon. It still seemed so strange to see it empty on a day when the sun was hot and there wasn’t a single cloud in the piercing blue sky. But the sand was white and empty. The town had already cleared out. Eden Bay felt so dead, ghostly, without the epicenter keeping it afloat.

“Alyson and I saw Alex down here yesterday,” I said to Bianca, still trying to convince her that he wasn’t the nice guy he appeared to be. I truly hoped she wasn’t considering using his number.

She stopped and looked concerned. “Really?” She pursed her lips and thought about it. “Well, maybe he was just investigating…you know, researching. It is his job, Claire.”

I sucked in my breath and started to say something. The annoying thing was, I knew she was right. But what was with all the digging in the sand? “Meg couldn’t swim, Bianca. It makes no sense that she was out in the water.” I told her about what Alyson had found out.

Bianca turned to me, stared straight into my eyes, and I saw her face change. She may have been a bit of a snob, but she was also a smart girl. She was also less stubborn than either Alyson and I were. She was open to suggestions, open to being changed by new information, and I knew I would be able to sway her opinion. She’d even given up fighting with me over selling The Book Shelf in the shop when she’d seen how much of a profit we were making from it.

“It’s certainly interesting,” Bianca said, taking in the news of Meg’s lack of swimming skills. She stared out into the crashing waves, lonely without any swimmers or surfers to keep them company. “But it is possible that Meg could have learned to swim since that Christmas Party, Claire. It was seven

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