The Summer Getaway by SUSAN MALLERY

Author:SUSAN MALLERY
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQ Fiction
Published: 2022-03-03T23:10:47+00:00

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HARLOW WAS HOT and tired. Her charter had run over by two hours—not all that unusual, but she hadn’t slept well the night before, so the longer day had bothered her more than usual. Plus, the heat and humidity were getting to her. She grabbed a bottle of water from the refrigerator in the break room, then made her way to her office, where she booted up her computer.

Maybe she was dehydrated, she thought, typing in her password. Or exhausted. She’d spent the past couple of days working on long charters with Enid, making sure her friend knew everything she needed to for her job.

Fortunately her BFF was a natural sailor. As Harlow had suspected, Enid was great with the clients, and the various captains liked her, so it had been an easy transition. Her dad had calmed down about Austin leaving and was now wondering aloud why he hadn’t hired Enid years ago.

Harlow watched her email load. She was off for two days, something she was usually grateful for, just not this time. Oh, she wanted to not be working, but now she and Kip were going to have their sit-down, and she wasn’t in the mood for that at all.

She knew getting to the heart of what was going on was important, but she didn’t think she could survive the “discussion” that would go with it. What if they had bigger problems to deal with? Although she couldn’t imagine something worse than him having been married before. That little shocker was part of what kept her awake.

What was she supposed to do with that information? How was she supposed to feel? Yes, Kip and Tracey had eloped, so he hadn’t had a big wedding, but still. She wasn’t going to be his first wife. For the rest of their lives together, she was his second wife. Nothing was going to be new for them.

Worse, he hadn’t told her. She’d reached the point where she understood the omission was a bigger deal than the marriage itself. Which explained her wanting to avoid the serious conversation she knew they had to have.

She worried about what else was he hiding. What if whatever it was turned out to be so bad, she had to end things? She didn’t think she could handle that. Not with both her mom and Austin gone. She would be totally on her own, with all the crap going on.

She should have gone with Austin, she thought, opening an email about a charter request. Not that her dad would have given her the time off. So that was a nonstarter. Still, it would have been nice to see Aunt Lillian and spend a few days at the house. She could have cleared her mind and hung out with her mom and talked to her about Kip and what was happening.

She saw an email from the attorney handling the purchase of the kayak business and felt a jolt of guilt. She hadn’t even thought about the kayak business in days.

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