The Resort by Bentley Little

Author:Bentley Little [Little, Bentley]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Horror
Publisher: Signet
Published: 2004-09-07T04:00:00+00:00

Twenty-three

He was in love.

Owen knew how that would sound if he said it aloud to anyone. Hell, he knew how he would have reacted if anyone before today had told him such a thing. But it was true. Through some chain reaction of fate and circumstances, he and Brenda had ended up in the same place at the same time, and if one thing had gone wrong, if his family had taken their vacation a week earlier or her family had decided to stay at another hotel, even though they lived in the same county of the same state they never would have met.

But they had.

It was meant to be.

He cringed inwardly even as he had the thought. Mush like that was for romance novels and women’s TV movies, not real life. But it was what he felt, and there was an electric excitement associated with it, a feeling that he’d experienced in flashes prior to this but that he’d never savored in its entirety.

Love.

He and his brothers had gotten to the pool well before the movie was supposed to start, but the place was already filling up. As soon as their parents left to go back to the room, Owen set about searching for Brenda while Curtis and Ryan took the two chairs that David had been able to save for them amid all of the families jostling for position by moving and scraping the pool furniture across the cement. He finally found Brenda in the water, seated on the steps in the shallow end. There was a light behind her, far away in the deep end, but it was so faint by the time it reached her that it was impossible to tell whether she was wearing a bathing suit or was naked.

She looked naked, though he knew she wasn’t.

He wished she was.

He got into the water next to her, surprised by its warmth. It must have absorbed the heat of the afternoon sun and retained it. “Do you have a raft?” he asked.

“No. You?”

He shook his head. “I guess we could just sit on the edge.”

“Or stay here in the water.” The lights in the palm trees above had dimmed, in preparation for the movie, he supposed, and it was impossible to see her face. The effect was strange, and he found that he was unable to read her emotions from her voice alone. He waded out a bit and turned around so the light from the deep end would make her less of a silhouette and easier to see. She reached for him, took his hand, and the touch of her fingers made him tingle. “Come on. Let’s swim out a bit and get away from this crowd.”

The steps had been invaded by several fathers with their small children, and Owen allowed himself to be led into deeper waters. In the back of his mind, always, was the location of the body he and Curtis had seen, but he would make sure to steer Brenda away from that area if they got too close.

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