It's Hot in the Hamptons by Holly Peterson

Author:Holly Peterson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29

Top 10 Reasons Apple Engineers Want You to Get Caught

Two days later

Annabelle drove her mint-green Mini Cooper convertible into Bridgehampton toward the exhale exercise studio. Arthur had surprised her with the car a few months earlier because, he said, it was cute and matched his favorite Valentino sundress of hers. After slamming the door, she realized she’d parked under a tree that might not have been a legal spot. But the shade would keep the car cool. She hated getting into a car that felt like a furnace during summer. A parking ticket, if she even got one, would be about eighty dollars. Her mother, the frugal WASP, was surely wagging her finger at her wherever she was.

Move the car, dear. Don’t be a spoiled little snot face.

After some hesitation, she left the Mini Cooper in the shade. As Annabelle walked down the sidewalk to meet Caroline, she thought about all those trips to Costco she used to make with the housekeeper. Arthur would point out to his new bride that whatever she had saved, he’d made that much in interest in the time it had taken him to point out how silly her trips to Costco had been. She should feel free to charge anything she desired at that swanky Upper East Side market.

“Thrifty was how I was brought up,” she used to tell him. “Excess is anathema to an old WASP household.”

Fifteen years, four girls, four homes, a personal NetJet account for Mother’s Day this spring (for trips with her girlfriends), and one big, fat summer affair later, Annabelle had readjusted her outlook. She didn’t have that much showy designer clothing that screamed, my husband has a fortune! But she could see the value in spending for convenience and comfort. Today, for instance, what’s eighty dollars when her ass would be cool on the drive home? It was a convertible, after all. Not her fault.

As she walked across the parking lot, Annabelle saw Caroline sitting on a small bench before the pond, two peach iced teas beside her, both dripping with condensation. They had fifteen minutes before the one exercise class of the summer they took together, and Caroline, by the look on her face, was already regretting it in the midday humidity.

“I just checked—the exhale class is with Fred DeVito. You knew that, didn’t you?” Caroline announced, without saying hello.

“He’s the best.” She picked up Caroline’s iced tea and moved it further away down the bench.

“What the hell?”

“Too much caffeine gives your wrinkles.” She twisted open a second bottle of Ginger Kombucha and handed it to Caroline. “Drink.”

“Nope, I’ve tried it once, tastes like rotten scraps that have been in a disposal for days.”

“Fermented, not rotten. Fred knows, he drinks it. And you should make your life goal to have a body like his wife, Elisabeth,” said Annabelle. “She’s sixty, by the way. Besides, I have gory details that are more interesting than your whining.”

“Fred is a tyrant. You could have picked some easier teacher. But yes, you have piqued my interest.

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