Two Captains, One Chair: An Alaskan Romantic Comedy by Marlow Shaye

Author:Marlow, Shaye [Marlow, Shaye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Igneous Publishing
Published: 2015-11-17T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

It sounded like a boat had stopped outside my cabin. Still sipping my morning coffee, I stepped outside to see who it was.

I stopped dead on my little porch.

A woman was walking up from my dock, a woman with tight white pants, ridiculously large sunglasses, sleek, coiffed black hair, and dangly earrings. I recognized the bitchy lady from the store. And behind her, that studly blond. And behind him, that big, canopied boat.

My coffee hung forgotten in my hand as I stared at her white pants, enthralled. In my occupation, I got smeared with grease, dirt, rust, tire rubber, and picked up all manner of stains probably better left unidentified. Obviously she did not share my occupation, but still, how had she even made it here without getting dirty? Just sitting on a bench seat in a boat would get you smeared with that insidious gray stuff that continuously wiped off of aluminum. And then there was the silt, the flying grit that invaded your very pores…

Ed’s sister, I reminded myself as she crossed my yard. I inspected her features, looking for similarities. There weren’t any, really, that I could see. They both had dark hair, but it wasn’t even the same shade.

She pulled her sunglasses off, and I saw she was looking around. Her eyes skimmed over my cabin, my smashed garden, my incongruously new generator shack. They finally wandered up to me, and her mouth pinched, and suddenly I felt like something nasty she’d found stuck to her shoe.

“So,” she said, “you’re Suzanne.”

“And you’re Chastity,” I said. I didn’t correct her on my name, because we weren’t friends. I stepped down from my porch, ready and willing to confront her, and not needing a height advantage to do it.

“The money-grubber that kept my dad warm the last couple years of his life,” she continued, speaking as if I hadn’t. She shook her head, looking at me like she just couldn’t quite believe it.

I got over the shock quickly, because many people had thought the same thing. After all, Ralph had really gotten around. “That’s not at all what happened,” I said.

“You must have really been something special, to rate that gold nugget,” she said, looking me over. She shook her head. “Damn, but he liked them young.”

“That’s not what happened,” I repeated. “Your dad was an amazing man, fun to talk to, had incredible stories of how it used—”

“He paid you for talking?” She scoffed. “I don’t think so.”

My teeth clenched. She didn’t seem like a person I could convince otherwise, and really, what was the point? She was a bitch, and I wanted to talk to her—get to know her—as little as possible. Let her think of me what she would.

“What are you doing here?” I asked.

“I thought I’d come by and see what’s going to be mine, if you haven’t produced my nugget by the 30th.”

My heart raced at the thought of losing my cabin. “I don’t have it,” I said. “It was stolen.”

She tsked. “Oh, that’s too bad.

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