Hollie Porter Builds a Raft by Gordon Eliza

Author:Gordon, Eliza [Gordon, Eliza]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781630640163
Publisher: West 26th Street Press
Published: 2015-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

17

I Shall Call Her Squishy and She Shall Be Mine

How a person can drink that much and not be making soul-bearing promises to the toilet the next morning is beyond me.

Miraculously, though, Lucy Collins is awake, fresh makeup on, sitting on the couch in what appear to be clean, albeit garishly unmatched clothes. The living room reeks of nail polish as she fans bright red fingernails while gingerly flipping through a glossy magazine about Portland nightlife. She’s rather silent. Which is weirdly unsettling. Perhaps she learned her lesson last night? Perhaps when she murmurs a small “thank you” to Ryan as I stand at the front desk paying the balance of her bar tab, she realizes she might have stepped over the line?

And then she departs in the middle of cramming blueberry pancakes into her face in the dining room, disappearing into the ladies’ until the bill is long paid and we’re all waiting on her in the lobby.

Forget it. I just want to go home.

The original plan was to return to the Cove tonight, but as the dress has been conquered (I so love my dress!), and given the events of the last eight hours, Ryan had an off-camera chat with Tanner et al, and we’re leaving this morning. The sooner we get home, the better.

Six hours later, as the pontoons glide across the water just off Revelation Cove’s docks, the excitement of being home and away from Lucy’s constant whining bubbles in me like that feeling just before the grown-up-sized roller coaster rockets down the steepest incline. Like, so excited, you might pee your pants but you won’t because that would be super gross and then the attendant would see it when you get off the coaster and you’d have to walk around the amusement park in wet pants. I will neither confirm nor deny that this is from real-life experience.

Tanner ties off the plane, the boys help us unload, and then Tan and Sarah bid us adieu, en route in their own boat to their cabin for some much-needed peace and quiet. Though Sarah says she’s worried about her tomatoes, I think the truth is she’s had her fill of The Lucy Show. I almost take her up on the offer to come hang out, but that wouldn’t be fair to Ryan or Miss Betty.

Life as resort managers is never dull, so as soon as we’re through the door, Ryan and his mom disappear into the office to catch up on the goings-on missed in the last two days.

“Hollie,” Miss Betty says, drawing me aside as we watch Lucy Collins sashay down the hall toward her room, “tonight, let’s the three of us sit down and finalize some details. Colors, flowers, what have you. I’ll cook. Sound good?”

“Sounds perfect.”

I drop off our bags in the apartment, grab a heavier pullover from the closet, check my camera for batteries and install a fresh memory card, and pluck the boat keys off the hook by the door. I need some Me Time.

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