Summer by the Sea by Cathryn Parry

Author:Cathryn Parry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-12-07T18:40:22+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

SAM NEVER DID reply to Duke’s wife’s invitation. Instead, two nights later—after he’d taken Lucy and Sarah down to Newburyport for dinner on a dockside table at his favorite seafood place—Sam phoned Duke at his home number.

It was just after eight o’clock. Lucy was up in her room, probably Skyping with Colleen, and that didn’t cause any tension for Sam in the least, because the crisis of Lucy being angry with him seemed to be over. She loved her app project. Loved working with Sarah. She even seemed to be more comfortable with him, and more so every day.

In fact, all seemed right with the world as far as he was concerned. Sarah was in Cassandra’s cottage, not fifty yards from where he was standing on the beach. The light in her bedroom was on, and he could gaze at it here in the warm June night air, listening to the waves slowly lapping onto the shore, and thinking about his time with her tonight.

Sarah had been at her entertaining best, upbeat and making funny Sarah-like comments. The three of them had driven down the coast and back together in his truck. Lucy was in the backseat, and after she’d run into the house to make her Skype deadline with her mother—evidently, the cruise ship sailed promptly at five—he and Sarah had finally been alone.

While telling him a story about the first time she’d ever been fishing as a kid, Sarah had touched him on the arm. Clasped him, warm and solid, which was remarkable, because he knew she was uptight about the age difference thing. His goal had been to make her forget about it. They’d been leaning against his truck in the darkness, laughing about nothing important, as if they had all the time in the world.

That’s what was surprising to him about being with Sarah. The adventure of getting to know her was completely different from the way he usually felt when he went away to places like... Scotland, for example.

He hadn’t escaped from anything. He was actually living his real life in Wallis Point with his real name. And his real job. And his real kid.

And yet, he didn’t mind getting to know Sarah this way. It felt even better than staying anonymous. Different, but he was fast getting addicted to hanging out with the very intense Sarah Buckley.

This possibly explained the insanity of the call he was making now.

“Sam,” Duke said when he picked up the phone. “I didn’t expect you. What’s up?”

“I know. Hope it’s not too late, but, ah...” Sam glanced at the light in Sarah’s bedroom. Somehow this nudged him to go on. “This is, ah, related to what you asked me two mornings ago on the boat.”

“Oh, yeah,” Duke said. There was noise in the background that sounded like the baseball game on TV. “Do you want me to tell Melanie to set something up with you three, then?”

You three—Duke was referring to Sarah, Lucy and him. “No. I mean, yeah.

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