YOLO_You Only Live Once by Sue Seabury

Author:Sue Seabury [Seabury, Sue]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: vin rouge
Published: 2018-02-07T16:00:00+00:00

17

“Coral can live for hundreds of years, which means some of this may have been here when Christopher Columbus made his first voyage.” Pete said.

“Fascinating.”

Kat was ready for a break when Ramsey called out, “Lunchtime!”

The spread was limited but very fresh. All the food she’d ever eaten at home seemed bland in comparison to the things she was having here. “What is this raisiny stuff?”

“Tamarind,” Ramsey said.

“Delicious.”

“We got the trees growing all over the resort. I’ll get Hugo to point them out to you.”

“Or I’d be happy to show you.” Pete got busy with his phone again.

Kat nodded politely, but Hugo was her preferred tour guide.

After lunch, the others prepared to head back out. Apparently, the PTA crowd was planning on getting in a couple of miles of swimming. Even Queenie was eager to go.

“Coming, Cathy?” The way Pete cocked his head reminded Kat of Josie’s spaniel, Nosykins.

“Um, I’m going to wait a few minutes and digest. I might have overdone it on the tamarind sauce.”

“I found a nice reef if you’d like me to show you around.” The beads hanging from strings of RuPTA’s black bikini rustled as she swayed her hips.

“Um, okay. That sounds nice,” Pete’s forehead creased. “So, Cathy, you know where to find us?”

“Yes, sure, go have fun.”

The one problem with staying behind was the cigar smoke. Even at the far end of the boat, it wafted up. She had to laugh that she ever worried the Cigarbellies would get drunk and drown. They hadn’t even gotten their toes wet. So much for her free massages. Maybe she’d give one of them a shove?

She’d just about made up her mind to go back in the water when she saw Ramsey cleaning up the lunch remains. Lending him a hand gave her the perfect excuse to delay her return to the water.

Ramsey had his back to her, loading leftovers into a cooler. Kat had stacked a pile of plates before he turned around.

“Hey, whoa, whatcha doin’? This is your vacation.”

She collected a stray napkin. “Can’t help it. I like to keep busy.”

“Well, in that case.” Ramsey sat down and put his feet up on one of the tables. His shiny eyes and loose laugh told her he’d helped himself to the bottle of rum.

Kat swatted his bare feet with the napkin. “Lazy bones. I’ll tell Hugo!” It was meant to be teasing, but Ramsey scowled.

“Just like Gianna,” he muttered, then his eyes went big like he’d just tattled. He recovered quickly with a sly smile. “ThenI’ll tattle, too. Tell him you were workin’ when you s’pposed to be relaxin’.”

Kat’s heart beat fast all of a sudden. She used the napkin to wipe up some condensation. Tracing circles on the smooth Formica was soothing. She saw why Hugo did it so much. “You let me pitch in and I won’t rat you out. Deal?”

He squinted at her in mock consideration. “You and Hugo, always working. Okay, Miss Kat. We all have our own ideas about how to relax.”

Kat traced a few more circles, then handed the stack of used plates to Ramsey.

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