Playing the Part by Kimberly Van Meter

Author:Kimberly Van Meter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-05-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

LINDY LEFT GABE’S bungalow, her mind moving in slow, lazy circles from sexual satisfaction, but soon enough questions began to ruin all those feel-good feelings.

Could they really be discreet enough to fool everyone? Her sisters would be hard to fool, particularly Lilah, but she wasn’t really worried about them. Lora would simply frown and go on about fraternizing romantically with the patrons, and Lilah would probably warn her about getting hurt when the Westons left. It was Carys who worried her.

She didn’t want the girl to find out. The thought of facing Carys with the news that she was shacking up with Gabe made her stomach roll uncomfortably. She doubted Carys would simply punch her in the arm like a girlfriend and say, “Good job!” Egad. What was she thinking? Lindy fidgeted with the fringe on her sarong. The memory of seeing Carys angry and grieving for her mother came back to scratch at Lindy’s conscience. Hell, Lindy thought with real fear, the kid might end up hating her for messing around with her dad—and well she should. She had no business being with Gabe casually.

Of course, there was also an opposite problem to consider. What if—in a shocking reversal—Carys actually embraced the idea of Lindy hanging around in more than a friendly capacity with Gabe? Worse! Because neither Gabe nor Lindy were in it for the long haul and because of that, where would their arrangement leave Carys when they finally left St. John?

Crushed.

Lindy worried a hangnail on her finger and almost ran smack into Lora.

“There you are,” Lora exclaimed with a hint of exasperation. “How’d it go with your producer friend?”

Lindy grimaced. Well, now was as good a time as any to get this over with. “It didn’t go as well as I’d hoped. They’re not going to budge from their current location. I’m sorry, Lora. I tried.”

“It’s okay,” Lora said, smiling. “I knew it was a long shot. I made some inroads with Sears Holdings Corporation but it’ll be a few weeks before I can get a meeting with their travel VP. In the meantime, we’ll just have to see what we can scare up locally. I was thinking we ought to see which charter companies are looking to partner for a split profit. We’ve never done that before, but I think it might serve us well to diversify.”

“Billy might be up to partnering with us,” Lindy suggested, and Lora nodded.

“I’ll have Heath talk to him and see if he wants to sit down and talk business.”

“I’d suggest Heath do the talking. If you recall, you and Billy aren’t exactly close.”

“Right,” Lora said with a resigned grimace as she muttered, “That man can sure hold a grudge.”

“Well, before you got all lovey-dovey, you were a bit of a hard-ass, remember?”

“Is everyone going to hold that against me for the rest of my life?” she asked, irritated. “Geesh, what do I gotta do for a little forgiveness? It wasn’t as if I drowned kittens or something equally awful in my spare time.

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