I Heart Hawaii by Lindsey Kelk

Author:Lindsey Kelk [Kelk, Lindsey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2019-05-01T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Jenny hadn’t told us where the evening’s activities were happening but it wasn’t difficult to guess. After an afternoon sat on an ice pack, working on my laptop, I met Louisa outside my villa at exactly seven o’clock. We were dressed in gorgeous designer dresses that had been delivered to our villas, and followed the sound of music and laughter.

We wove our way through the villas and out towards the main building. The whole pool area was covered with flowers, leading us down the stone stairs to the beach where a bonfire burned brightly and dozens of men and women were dancing in traditional Hawaiian dress, huge, happy smiles on their faces.

‘This is all for us?’ Louisa breathed. ‘Oh, Angela, this is insane. It’s not real life.’

‘You’re right,’ I reminded her. ‘It isn’t. It’s a press trip that was organized for a bunch of millionaire kids on YouTube who weren’t allowed to come because they haven’t learned one of life’s easiest lessons: Nazis are always bad.’

‘Tim was in a total mood when I called,’ she said, sticking out her tongue to protest against her husband’s sulking. ‘Did you manage to get through to Alex?’

‘I called from the room phone but he didn’t answer so I emailed him to say my phone was out of order,’ I breathed in. Was that pork? Smelled like pork. ‘He hasn’t replied yet.’

‘You told him your phone is out of order?’ Lou quirked an eyebrow as Jenny waved to us from the middle of a circle of hula dancers. ‘Angela, it got trampled by a horse that ran you halfway up a volcano.’

‘Yes, well, that feels like more of an in-person story to me,’ I replied, gingerly pressing the soft spot at the bottom of my back. Kekipi had been right. I looked as though I’d been indulging in at least seventy-five shades of grey and my backside was going to be a billion shades of bruised by morning. Thank god I’d already got my skinny-dipping adventure out the way.

‘Welcome to the Précis luau!’ Jenny sang, her hair piled high up on top of her head, every inch of visible golden skin shining like lava. She looked as though she’d taken a bath in highlighter, and knowing Jenny, that was quite possible. ‘Tonight is the absolute highlight of our trip, a true celebration of everything Hawaii has to offer. And like, really great cocktails. If everyone could take their seats, the show is about to begin. Time to celebrate True Soul mascara!’

‘Hashtag ad,’ I whispered to Lou.

‘Hashtag True Soul,’ she replied, utterly earnest.

‘Love your dresses, ladies.’ Paige danced her way over in improbably high heels, her off-the-shoulder frock fluttering in the breeze as she moved. ‘How’s your arse, AC?’

‘You definitely want to ice it,’ James said with a knowing nod as he trotted up after his new BFF. ‘When I did my first intensive riding class for that Billy Buskin film, it was so bad I was filling my trunks with ice cubes in the end.

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