Finding Forever on Their Island Paradise by Therese Beharrie

Author:Therese Beharrie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-12-15T19:57:12+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

THIS LAST WEEK of Elliott’s life had been unlike any other.

He’d had more people in his house than he actually knew on the island. Someone had always been popping in to check on him, bringing some form of food or entertainment. The fridge and freezer were packed with enough meals for, he suspected, the next century, and his living room now held a number of magazines and board games he’d never heard of.

The more he’d told people he could read or play games on his tablet, the more they’d waved off his suggestions. He’d stopped trying to tell them he had enough food, too. That had come after he’d said it to Sharon and she had laughed out loud and said, ‘You never have enough food on Penguin Island.’

She’d promptly dished him up another plate of her admittedly brilliant chicken alfredo and told him to eat.

After day two of this invasion, he’d told himself to accept it. Nothing he said was going to change what the people of Penguin Island were doing for him. And once that resistance had gone away, he had finally been able to examine his emotions about it all. He supposed one of them was bemusement. Why were all these people being nice to him? They barely knew him. He was an outsider; he didn’t deserve their kindness.

It made him think of how Morgan had helped him in those first few days. He hadn’t deserved her kindness either, but she’d given it to him. Things had changed since then. Now when she called him, she did the bare minimum of checking in before immediately shifting to business. The project seemed to be going well, and he clung to that. The sooner it was done, the sooner he could leave the island and pretend the last confusing month had never happened.

Still, every day he missed Morgan. More than he had any right to. He’d told her not to visit—because he’d seen on her face that she didn’t want to—and yet every day he wished she would.

It happened on the Sunday.

Edna knocked on his door, bright and early. This wasn’t unusual; she’d been bringing him brownies every day since she’d discovered he liked them. It had bothered him at first—he had come here and threatened her wedding. But she seemed to have put that aside, probably because he had built the entire estate project around the event, and now she was dedicated to taking care of him. After he’d thought about that it had still bothered him, but somehow...less.

That morning though, Edna looked fierce as she entered his house. She usually knocked before letting herself in. Crime here was nearly non-existent, which was only one reason he left the door unlocked. It was the easier option. Otherwise he’d be walking to the door every hour at least, and that would prolong his recovery even more.

‘My granddaughter has something to say to you.’

Elliott put down the cup of coffee he’d been drinking. He shifted, for the first time seeing an exasperated Morgan behind her grandmother.

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