Have Honeymoon, Need Husband by Robin Wells

Author:Robin Wells [Robin Wells]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781459273009
Publisher: Harlequin Treasury

Chapter Seven

A shrill whistle echoed through the lodge, causing Luke to freeze in his tracks in the middle of the main hall.

What in deuces was that? Whatever it was, it sounded like it came from the guest room quarters. With a muttered oath, Luke clutched the employee time sheets he’d come to collect and headed off to investigate.

He found Consuela standing in the hallway outside an open guest room door.

“What’s going on?” he asked, craning his neck to peer inside. He stared in surprise as two pudgy, middle-aged chambermaids raced around the room’s two beds, smoothing and tucking the sheets, jamming pillows into pillow cases and yanking up the bedspreads in record time. In the six months he’d known these women, he’d never seen them move faster than slugs. Come to think of it, they usually looked about as neat as slugs, too. Yet here they were, sporting brand-new black-and-white maid uniforms and looking as dapper as a pair of penguins.

“It’s a bed-making race,” Consuela said. “Isn’t it exciting?”

Thrilling. And he bet he could just guess who was behind all the excitement, he thought with a scowl. His eyes scanned the room for Josie. Sure enough, there she was, standing in the corner, her eyes riveted on a stopwatch, her hair curling about her shoulders in wild abandon. His stomach tightened at the sight of her, and the unwelcome reaction only increased his annoyance.

He’d managed to avoid her for the past three days, but he hadn’t managed to get her off his mind. It didn’t help matters that Consuela and Manuel couldn’t stop talking about her. Josie had done this, Josie had done that, Josie had recommended so and so. They prattled on so about her, you’d think she’d hung the moon.

Josie had evidently helped Consuela select and train two new employees, and she’d instituted some kind of incentive program to encourage the housekeeping staff to show up on time and improve their job performance. And while Luke had to admit the lodge was running more smoothly, her involvement in the operation of the place bothered him no end.

She’d started out peeling potatoes, and now she was darn near running the whole show. It just wasn’t right. She was a paying guest, by golly, and she had no business being so involved in the operation of the lodge. The whole situation made him flat-out uneasy.

One of the maids plopped a mint on a pillow and threw her hands up in the air. “All done!” she shouted.

The second maid quickly followed suit. “Me, too!”

Josie clicked the stopwatch and beamed at the maids. “That was terrific, ladies. You beat your old time by ten full seconds. Shave off another ten seconds next time, and Consuela will give you each a pound of coffee to take home.”

“Great!” The taller of the two maids turned to her co-worker. “You know, Myra, that was a lot of fun.”

“Yeah. Didn’t seem like work at all,” agreed the other.

“I think work should be fun,” Josie said. “We’ll have another race later in the week.

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