Cruel Summer by Kylie Adams

Author:Kylie Adams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MTV Books
Published: 2006-10-14T04:00:00+00:00

From: Max

Pool party at the shore club. Can u roll or do u have 2 mow a lawn? lmao.

1:51 pm 6/23/05

Chapter Eight

Four-year-old Jovi Kelley was screaming blue murder…and so far he only had two feet ankle deep in the water. It was going to be a long summer with this kid.

But being stuck in a pool all day beat the shit out of bussing tables at Tony Roma’s, which is what Dante had been doing before landing the SafeSplash job.

“It’s okay, little man, it’s okay,” Dante assured him, his voice soothing but not too coddling. He lifted Jovi back onto the dry land of the coquina deck, a whitish-gray coral stone with natural fissures and fossilized shells.

Just as Jovi’s terror began to subside, his father came rushing out of the main house in a panic. “I heard him crying!” Rob Kelley exclaimed, his tone equal parts concern and accusation.

“Everything’s cool,” Dante said. “He’s just nervous. Isn’t that right, little man?”

At first, Jovi managed an affirmative nod, but then he rushed into his father’s arms, clung to him like a koala bear, and proceeded to bawl louder than a colicky baby.

Rob Kelley smothered the boy with kisses and stroked his back tenderly, cooing, “You don’t have to go in the scary water if you don’t want to, Jovi. Do you want to go inside for a snack? Do you want to watch a show? You know what? For being such a big boy today, I’m going to take you to the toy store and let you pick out anything you want.”

“Okay,” Jovi mumbled. And then he started sucking his thumb.

“Last summer we went through four swimming coaches,” Rob explained. “He can’t get past the fear. We just have to let him ease into this on his own time.”

Dante merely nodded. Jesus Christ, this kid didn’t stand a chance in life with Mr. Mommy at the controls.

Rob Kelley was the do-nothing husband of Naomi Kelley, the new It girl in Hollywood, thanks to her breakout star turn in Pink Hard Hat, a fluffy comedy about a pampered wife who starts a rival construction business to get back at a cheating ex. It was pretty much Legally Blonde on a building site. But the Monday after the movie’s first big weekend at the box office, Naomi’s price skyrocketed to fifteen million a picture.

Ka-ching. That explained Naomi and Rob’s megabucks lifestyle. They lived in a mansion inside a gated community on Hibiscus Island, an oasis crammed with prime real estate and only accessible by car via the MacArthur Causeway. Dante figured that the pool installation alone must’ve run at least half a mil. He’d never seen a backyard water hole so tricked out.

It was a massive rectangular structure lined with reflective iridescent glass tiles. On one side, the pool dipped into a grotto surrounded by palm trees. An active jet spray in the bottom created the illusion of a hot spring. On the other side, the reef steps—imbedded with a Baja Bubbler that allowed for water spa massages—led into a sunken bar lined with floating stools.

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