Pleasure Cruise by Yolanda Wallace

Author:Yolanda Wallace [Wallace, Yolanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781635552201
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2018-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

Night Three

Even though she had been on the move most of the day, Spencer decided to go for a long walk after dinner. Her mission was twofold. She wanted to burn off some of the many calories she had taken in since she boarded the ship three days ago, and she needed some downtime so she could have a chance to clear her head. One task proved far easier to accomplish than the other.

By the time she completed her second lap of the promenade deck, her heart rate was up and she had broken a sweat, but her thoughts were just as jumbled as they had been when she’d left her cabin.

Today had been everything she had hoped for and more. Spending time with Amy had been like something out of a dream. Better even, because most of her dreams didn’t have happy endings. She didn’t have any reason to believe the outcome of this dream would be any different, but she couldn’t stop wondering if this was the rare occasion when reality surpassed fantasy. Even though she kept reminding herself of the many reasons why she and Amy couldn’t possibly make a go of it, she kept coming up with reasons to explain why they should give themselves the opportunity to find out.

When she was with Amy, she didn’t feel like the awkward misfit who was accustomed to being the butt of jokes instead of the person telling them. She felt confident. Comfortable. Capable of anything. Even outrunning her own past. She couldn’t tell if she was losing sight of who she was, or discovering who she had never given herself a chance to be.

She headed up to the lido deck and took a look around. The deck was even more deserted than the buffet had been that morning. A woman in a black bathing suit and a matching swim cap was doing a brisk backstroke in the pool, but most of the lounge chairs surrounding the pool were empty. That was fine by Spencer. She wanted to stare at the stars twinkling overhead, not make conversation.

“It’s a beautiful view, isn’t it?”

Spencer turned her gaze away from the Big Dipper and focused on the woman who had spoken to her. Finn Chamberlain, the travel writer she had met after the wine tasting the day before, was stretched out on a lounge chair on the other side of the pool with an electronic reader propped on her lap. The e-reader’s touch screen cast a faint glow just bright enough for Spencer to read the words on Finn’s T-shirt: If I Die, Please Delete My Browser History. Finn seemed to possess nearly as many humorous T-shirts as she did stories about her many travels around the world. Before she met Luisa, her only companion on her voyages was the Porky Pig figurine she tucked into her backpack before each trip. Spencer could see herself doing many things on her own, but flying solo to a country where she didn’t know anyone and couldn’t speak the language wasn’t one of them.

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