Surprise Daddies: A Contemporary Romance Box Set by London James

Author:London James [James, London]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2020-01-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Avery

I'm still not pleased with my best friend and my... well... what is Owen? Is he my boyfriend? Was he my friend who's a boy when we were kids, and now he's my actual boyfriend? Is he too old to be my boyfriend? Would he panic if he heard me calling him my boyfriend?

All this is far too much for my already overworked brain to sort through. I slip that whole conversation into a filing cabinet in the back corner of my mind and go back to thinking about how they mutinied against me. I'm not happy about being loaded back onto Owen’s potentially-international-waters boat and hurried back to the island. There's more I could have done in Vidalia Isle.

The one good thing about it is that it has given me plenty of time with my new diagram. Now that the other bed-and-breakfast owners are clear, I don't need my stick figure representations anymore. At least not of the other owners. Now the stick figures represent my new suspects.

I've grown out of just two pieces of paper taped together, and my more expansive three-piece combination is spread on the floor so I can walk around it and get a view from all angles. In the three days since we left Vidalia Isle, the paper has become a clutter of notes, lines, doodles, and more than a few question marks.

Owen walks into the room, and I gesture for him to come over. He hands me a glass of tea and a sandwich.

"Thank you," I say, chomping into the tuna salad that has become my recent favorite lunch. "This is so good."

Owen kisses me and laughs. "It's just tuna. Angela taught me to make it when I was a teenager because I never stopped eating, and she couldn't always be in the kitchen cooking for me."

"I know, but it's delicious. I've never liked tuna, but I could eat these all day."

"Well, if I'm the one manning the kitchen, it's your only option. I can make tuna salad sandwiches, bowls of cereal, and takeout orders. Unfortunately, the island is not yet equipped with a strip mall of restaurants, so we're limited to the first two. But I think we ran out of milk. So, tuna it is."

"It was nice of you to give Angela, Miles, and everybody some time off," I tell him. "I'm sure they appreciate being able to relax a bit."

"I know it made you uncomfortable to have them around," he says.

"It didn't make me uncomfortable to have them around. I just didn't like them feeling like they had to do everything for me," I explain. "But anyway, I will cook some real food for dinner tonight. Sound good?"

"If you can pry yourself away from your diagram for long enough," he says. "It looks like you're making some new... squiggles."

"That's what I wanted to show you. Look," I point down at the paper and the blue line I've just added. "When Seb and Skylar went into Mercer's room, there wasn't much.

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