Flirting With the Frenemy by Grant Pippa

Author:Grant, Pippa [Grant, Pippa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Humour, Adult
ISBN: 9781940517490
Amazon: B07P5FMYLJ
Goodreads: 44130982
Publisher: Bang Laugh Love LLC
Published: 2019-03-01T08:00:00+00:00

FIFTEEN

Wyatt

Davis declines joining Tucker and me down in Shipwreck for the kick-off to the treasure dig, so it’s just the two of us walking along Blackbeard Avenue, heading for the center square. We haven’t yet figured out any of the clues to find the hidden peg leg around town, but neither of us cares. We’re having fun with everything else.

“Dad, can I get a tattoo?” Tucker asks.

“What? No. You’re seven.”

“Motherfucker! Motherfucker!” a voice calls.

I clap my hands over Tucker’s ears and look around at the various tourists joining us on the sidewalk, but they’re all just as confused as I am.

Grady Rock pops his shaggy head out of the bakery. “Hush your craw, Long Beak Silver. There are kids around.”

We all follow his gaze to the cannons sticking over the edge of the roof at Cannon Bowl next door, where old Pop’s parrot is perched. “Eat shit,” the parrot replies.

“Ah, go walk the plank,” Grady says.

The parrot waddles to the end of the cannon, lifts a foot, sways, and plummets toward the ground.

Everyone gasps, but the bird flaps its wings at the last second and takes off across the street to perch on the movie theater’s marquee.

“Asshole parrot,” Grady mutters as he ducks back into his shop.

I let go of Tucker’s ears, but he’s stopped and is staring in the bakery window. “Those tattoos, Dad,” he says.

Oh. Right.

The temporary tattoos that are in baskets all over town. “Oh. Yes.”

We grab a handful inside, and Tucker tells Grady he makes the best donuts in the universe, and I end up getting both of us a plain glazed donut for fuel for the dig, though I’m eyeballing the banana pudding donuts. “Banana flavoring?” I ask Grady.

He shudders. “Vanilla pudding with real bananas. They’re new. Want one?”

“Ellie will.”

That earns me a knowing grin. He glances down at Tucker then back to me, and mouths, padded headboards.

I give him a glare that usually makes lieutenants quake, but he just grins bigger.

“Tucker, say thank you for the tattoos,” I instruct.

“Aahnk oo,” he says around a mouthful of donut.

We make it to the crowded town square just in time to see Pop in full pirate regalia making a speech about the pirate Thorny Rock on the makeshift stage in the center of the square. Tucker tugs my hand, and I follow, thinking we’re heading for a better view, or to get closer to what looks to be the line.

But nope.

He’s pulling us over to gawk at a group in full costume.

The men are dressed as pirates, but the women are a dog, a monkey, and a parrot.

“Do you think that one uses bad words?” Tucker asks me while he points.

The parrot turns our way, and—oh, fuck.

It’s Monica.

She waves and gestures us over while the crowd applauds Pop.

“I love your feathers,” Tucker tells her, reaching out to pet her stomach.

“Whoa, bud, we ask before we touch,” I tell him.

Monica offers an arm instead while I nod to Ellie, who’s decked out in the monkey costume. The inside

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