Sandbar Season (Summer Cottage Novels Book 2) by Rebecca Regnier

Author:Rebecca Regnier [Regnier, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-06-29T16:00:00+00:00

A few minutes later, Hope stood, salad in hand and pride in the dustbin, waiting for her ride. The girls picked her up on the water, not on the road.

Hope didn’t look back to the neighboring cottage again, fearing she’d say or do something ridiculous. Swimming in her skivvies and screaming bloody murder at a pair of amorous robins were enough for one week.

A red and silver vessel came into view soon after her encounter, thank goodness! She could flee.

At the helm of the slow-moving but glorious old boat was another old friend she hadn’t seen forever and ever.

“Captain Keith.”

Keith was the honorary sixth Sandbar Sister. He was like a brother to all of them—well, all of them except, of course, Libby. It had been obvious to everyone but them that he was in love with Libby all those summers ago.

“Hiya, it’s been a while,” Keith said.

They docked the boat.

“Permission to come aboard,” Hope asked Keith.

“Oh, it’s her boat. I’m just the hired help.”

“Permission granted,” Libby said.

Keith put his arms out. Hope stepped inside and couldn’t really believe this middle-aged man was Keith. He was still handsome and boyish at the same time. But the gawkiness of youth was a memory. He was a vet, had lost his wife, Libby had told her. He had been through so much.

She thought back to the time Keith took the hit for things they asked him to do, from running off boys they didn’t want to waste time on, to telling ones they did that they were interested.

The stuff he’d put up with from them! Suddenly, she was flooded with love for him, for J.J. and Libby.

“Wow, this is weird,” she said.

“Weird and totally normal at the same time,” J.J. pointed out. She was right.

Libby and Keith had rekindled their relationship after all these years. It made Hope so happy to see.

And also sad, that her life, since the time she knew them, had changed so drastically. Her personality as Mrs. Marcia Venerable was nothing like it had been when they knew her.

The Hope Benton they knew was in charge of her teenage love life. But that self-assured teen turned into a disappointed wife.

During her entire marriage with Archie she tried to find a way to make him feel as cool as he seemed when they first met. She was attracted to Archie because he made her mom mad. It wasn’t the best foundation for a harmonious adult relationship.

She shook it off. And the melancholy that wanted to overcome her when she thought about time past, and time wasted.

“Find a comfortable spot on the floating porch, and I’ll ferry you three ladies around the lake,” Keith said.

“Like old times,” Hope said.

“Yes, exactly, except no backseat boat driving.” Keith pointed that statement at Libby.

She responded by swatting him on the hip.

They seemed easy together. It was sweet. Hope was glad J.J. was also solo on this little trip. It saved her from feeling like a fifth wheel with these two.

“What’s been up with your life?” Hope asked Keith.

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