Love on Summer Break Series by Stephanie J. Scott

Author:Stephanie J. Scott [Stephanie J. Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-02-13T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWO

Mission one: get my kids’ zone position back. (Beg if necessary.)

Mission two: Get close to KJ.

Back at Midwest Wild Adventure, my hand paused on the door handle of my car. How could I get close to KJ after what happened at the Love Hut? He’d laughed at me. Everyone had laughed. Every one of my new coworkers on shift yesterday.

Horror struck all over again.

Did I even want this job back? Maybe I should sabotage it. Then they’d have to fire me.

If only it were that easy. Mom made it clear as crystal I needed to get back to work.

With every ounce of courage I could muster, I pushed open my door and headed inside the park.

The door to the employee office shut hard behind me and rattled a framed aerial photo of the park hung inside the entry. Whoops.

“Who’s slamming my door?” The voice coming from farther back in the office did not belong to Terry. He wouldn’t be here until at least four from what I remembered. This voice was older. Deeper. More of an East Coast sound to it, like how people on TV spoke when they were from New York.

From an office with a gold-plated sign on the door reading The Big Cheese, a deeply tanned white man appeared. He had a long face and wrinkles that looked softened through the wash. His hair thinned at the top but he wore it swooped and to the side like a boy band singer. “Was that you slamming my door?”

It was main entrance, but whatever. “Uh, yes. Sorry about the door.”

I approached with my hand out for a formal handshake. John, my stepdad, did the handshake thing when his business colleagues came to the house to drop off documents. Sometimes they talked about golf. All super boring, but I still paid attention, watching for useful information. “I’m Elena De Wilde. I work here.”

“De Wilde, eh?” His face perked. “Well, isn’t that wild. De Wilde in de-wild.” He chuckled. Slow at first, then louder, longer.

This was about to get old fast. But seeing he came out of an office reading The Big Cheese, I laughed like he’d said the funniest thing I’d heard all week. “That’s hilarious. You’re the first to point that out. I didn’t even notice it myself.”

He pat his gut, which was fairly trim for an older guy. “I’m a bit of a wordsmith, myself.” He finally noticed my hand thrust toward him and shook it. “I’m Uncle Frankie. The Uncle Frankie.”

I blinked and smiled. No idea. “Wow, so great to meet you.”

“Likewise.” He looked past me to the vacant front desk. Beyond that, a hall led to where our personal lockers, staff bathrooms, a break room, and a kitchenette existed. I’d gotten the tour yesterday. “You need something, Miss De Wilde? I may own the place, but usually Jennifer up front takes care of the day-to-day.”

The owner, the cheese. “Yes, actually, I do need something. Yesterday there was a misunderstanding. I was reassigned from the kids’ zone to go-karts and—”

Uncle Frankie winced.

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