Moonlight and Margaritas by Stark Cindy

Author:Stark, Cindy [Stark, Cindy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cindy Nielsen
Published: 2012-02-25T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Elena closed the door to her bungalow, curious about the envelope the concierge had just handed her. When the knock had sounded on the door, she'd thought it was Joe arriving for their late afternoon date. She'd been wrong.

She looked at the familiar handwriting and then ripped open the envelope. It took a moment for her to digest exactly what Mercedes had written, but apparently her dear friend had decided it was best to leave Elena in sultry Cabo San Lucas while she headed home to reassess her life, away from all the tempting men at the resort.

Elena stuffed the note back in the envelope. The woman never did anything half way, did she? It was a good start, but there would be plenty of men to tempt her back home in Carmel.

It would have been nice if her friend would have told her in person before she'd left. Then again, Mercedes had probably guessed that she would have tried to talk her out of it, or insist that she accompany her home. Which she would have. In that order. She sighed. Elena just hoped her friend would pursue whatever help she needed to regain control of her life. As long as they'd been friends, Mercedes had never faltered like this.

And now here she was on their Mexican vacation alone. It wasn't that she was nervous about being there by herself. Self-sufficient had become her new middle name. But it made her sad to think her friend was so messed up that she couldn't stay and enjoy the beauty.

Another knock sounded on the door, and she dropped the envelope on a table near the couch. She opened the door to find Joe standing there in a white cotton shirt tucked into dark shorts, the late afternoon sun highlighting him like a Mayan god. Her heart stumbled.

"Hi." He presented her with a small vase full of exotic flowers. "I'm not sure what they call these, but they were beautiful, and they reminded me of you."

Elena was taken aback. "You're so sweet. Red ginger flowers and bird of paradise. I love these. For the longest time, I've tried to find a decent vendor to ship the ginger flowers to my shop. My current vendor always sends them late and half the time they show up looking frazzled." She fingered a red spiky flower. "But, these are just lovely." She smiled at him and stepped back to let him enter.

"The florist's name and address are on the card. Maybe he'd put you in touch with his vendor." Joe followed her into the bungalow and waited while she set the vase on the table and opened the card.

Tu robaste mi corazon. Her eyes cruised over the Spanish words, her brain not understanding a syllable. She smiled and put the card away, cursing herself for not learning better Spanish, but she wasn't about to turn their sweet moment awkward by asking him to translate. "They're just beautiful. Thank you."

He could be telling her to kiss off or proposing marriage, and she'd have no idea.

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