Castaway Cove by Joann Ross - Shelter Bay 06 - Castaway Cove

Author:Joann Ross - Shelter Bay 06 - Castaway Cove [Ross, Joann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780451240002
Google: c5pdLwEACAAJ
Amazon: 0451240006
Barnesnoble: 0451240006
Goodreads: 15812178
Publisher: Signet
Published: 2012-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

26

Sedona had no sooner followed Annie into the restroom than Maddy joined them. “I guess someone forgot to notify me that we were having a meeting?”

“I just had to get away,” Sedona said. “Before I screamed and everyone would probably think there was a mouse in the restaurant, or a fire, or something, and I’d have caused a stampede of lunch customers.”

“All leaving without paying their checks,” Maddy said. “Which would not have made me all that happy.” She locked the door, leaned against it, and folded her arms. “So, what’s going on? You”—she pointed at Annie—“looked about as serious as you have since I’ve known you.

“While you,” she said, turning toward Sedona, “appeared to be undergoing a tax audit.”

“Worse,” Sedona said. “I was being interviewed for this business the guy’s setting up.”

“So it wasn’t really a date? He’s not into you or your cupcakes?”

“No. Apparently all my customers who were betting on when he was going to ask me out had the wrong idea. He was merely trying to get up the nerve to ask me to lunch. The guy might be rich enough to buy the entire town, but believe me, communicating with the opposite sex isn’t high in his skill set.”

“He looks familiar,” Annie mused. “He’s not bad-looking. Sort of like Clark Kent before he changes into Superman.”

“Yep, he is good-looking. In a nerdish sort of way. Maybe you saw him on the cover of Fortune magazine a few months ago. He’s a member of that illustrious one percent of the wealthiest people in the country, having made gazillions in the tech business. He’s working on a new start-up. Which is the only reason he wanted me to have lunch with him.”

“He wanted financial advice?”

“Hardly. No, he’s doing this personality interview thing, then plugging all my answers into some computer program he’s developed that, according to him, will set people up with compatible partners. With, he assured me, ninety-nine-point-six percent accuracy.”

“Are you talking an online dating service?” Maddy asked.

“Exactly. He’s calling it ‘My Matrix Match.’ Apparently, although he’s been collecting e-mail interviews from subjects for the past year, I’m the first daughter of former flower children he’s run across.”

“Not surprising, in his line of work,” Maddy said.

“True. Plus, the fact that I made such a major change in occupations apparently adds a variable element outside the mean, to fit into his mathematical model.”

“Wow, and doesn’t that sound like a fascinating lunch conversation for a lovely summer day?” Maddy said.

“It seems that you being a CPA-turned-baker would make you more difficult to plug into any niche,” Annie mused.

“Possibly. But I really don’t care whether he can fit me into his metric niche. I just want to get out of here.” She looked pleadingly at Maddy. “Couldn’t you set off a fire alarm or something?”

“It can’t be that bad.”

“Believe me, it is.” Sedona sighed, reached into her purse, took out a zippered mesh bag, and repaired her lipstick. “As much as I was really hoping for some of that

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