Death on Shorewatch Bay by Mark Stone

Author:Mark Stone [Stone, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sunday Dinner Press
Published: 2021-01-05T22:00:00+00:00

17

With my bag slung over my shoulder and sunglasses over my eyes, I held my hand up to my face, walking through the throngs of people on the beach today. Normally, this wouldn’t have bothered me. In fact, I was a little later than usual coming in this morning, and if the beach hadn’t been crowded, I would have seen it as strange.

It wasn’t the number of people who were on the sand today that made me feel out of place in the only area that had ever really been home to me. No, the thing that was tripping me out was the fact that they were all staring at me, all taking my picture, all screaming my name.

While I was used to a few lingering looks here and there—there were people who would say I was a good looking guy, and there were more than a few women out there who had a thing for lifeguards—this was something completely different. These people didn’t think I was cute. Or at least, they weren’t looking at me because they thought I was cute. They were all going crazy over me for the same reason they had been going crazy over me for the last few days, and it was all Cameron James’s fault.

“Can I have a picture?!” one person shouted from the crowd. “Just one picture!”

“Sign my yearbook!” another person yelled as I kept walking, refusing to break stride as I made my way to the main tower to clock in and start my day. I had made the mistake of interacting with these people the first day this happened. I thought it would be rude not to at least acknowledge them. Six hours of batting through a never-ending sea of people later, and I had a whole new definition of what was rude. So I decided to just keep going, no matter who I saw and no matter what I heard.

“Danny Chase, I want to have your baby!” a third voice shouted, and though I had promised not to react, that one almost brought me to a stop.

“Lord in heaven” I muttered, finally stepping into the main tower and walking toward my locker.

Sighing, I ran a hand through my hair and rested my head against the locker’s cool metal. I could swim until other men’s arms threatened to fall off and never so much as blink an eye about it, but dealing with celebrity was a completely different type of exhausting. As it turned out, I didn’t like it too much.

“Well, if it isn’t the belle of the ball,” Riley said, settling beside me and pulling his locker open. I could tell from the sheen of droplets across his skin that he’d just gotten out of the water. I knew that look all too well—not dripping wet but not completely dry either. He had just made a save. Or at least, hopefully, he’d made it.

“Don’t call me that,” I said flatly, pushing myself off my locker and opening it. “Busy morning?”

“Aren’t they all?” Riley murmured.

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