One Way Ticket by Tricia O'Malley

Author:Tricia O'Malley [O’Malley, Tricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lovewrite Publishing

Chapter Nineteen

The days drew out, falling into a pattern of yoga classes, a daily Horatio hand-holding session, and heightening tensions between several members of the group. Paige found it oddly like watching a soap opera from afar, except, she had a direct part in the outcome as the players often came to her to gripe about each other. A few of the top complaints: Whit disappearing on late-night beach walks with different women. The men all falling head over heels for Mariposa – even though many of them were there with their partners. Horatio not getting enough attention. Oddly enough, CeCe was never at the center of complaints – as both men and women alike warmed to her cheerful personality.

Except for one person, that is.

Paige had been on her way to her office to escape Horatio one day when she’d happened upon a whispered argument between Jack and CeCe. They’d dispersed when they’d seen her – Jack shooting her a glare before disappearing into the garden. CeCe had pasted a smile on her face and chattered at Paige about a project she was working on in their personal quarters – something about refacing a cabinet. The day CeCe refinished a cabinet was the day that Paige would see a shark walk on land.

She’d had a moment to overhear a bit of their argument before they’d cut it off at her approach. It had sounded like it was about CeCe’s and Jack’s past. There had been something about finances and money owed…but she hadn’t been able to make it out. Paige hoped that Tranquila Inn wasn’t in trouble. Because as weird as everyone was here, she was starting to find her own pace and thought she could end up enjoying this job. She’d yet to see anything else of the island, but one of these days she planned to explore more. The problem was – and this was something she always ran into – the balance between her work and her life was seriously skewed.

“Hey.”

Paige looked up to see Jack at her office door.

“Hey.”

“I’m heading into town for a supply run. Want to come with? It’s been brought to my attention that you haven’t left the hotel once since the last time you went to town.” Jack smiled at her like he was asking her to skip school and go smoke dope in the parking lot.

“It would be nice to have a change of scenery. Do we really get to go play?”

“Boss says it’s okay.” Jack looked at his watch. “Meet me out front in fifteen?”

“That should work. I’ll just go grab my purse and put my stuff away.” Even though she still had a ton of paperwork, Paige found herself excited at the prospect of a little downtime. She’d taken to retreating to her office as much as she could lately. Managing Horatio was like trying to calm down a toddler that had been set loose in a candy store. It would be nice to be completely unavailable to him for an afternoon.

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