The Secret Keeper: Feel Good Beachy Women's Fiction (Hideaway Bay Book 1) by Maggie Miller

Author:Maggie Miller [Miller, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-05-30T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty

Frankie closed her laptop, pleased with the amount of work she’d gotten done. She was less pleased about how long she’d been sitting. She stood up, stretched, and decided that much inactivity was not a good thing.

She felt her age. She needed to move. To get some exercise. She might need the money these illustrations would bring in, but she couldn’t sacrifice her health and mental wellbeing by spending her entire summer vacation doing nothing else.

“Come on, Archie. Let’s see if your mama is ready to go for that walk. It’ll do all three of us good.”

Archie got to his feet, did a slow, downward-facing dog stretch, then came to stand beside Frankie. He smiled, tongue out, ready to go wherever she was going.

She grinned at him, giving him some pets. “You’re such a sweet boy. If I could afford it, I’d get a doggy just like you.”

She would, too. But she had too much debt to take on the responsibility of a pet, as much as she would have welcomed the company. Living by herself was kind of awful sometimes. And sometimes the peace and quiet were wonderful. But mostly, she was acutely aware of how alone she was.

She didn’t miss Tom, but she missed her kids. They were off living their own lives, busy with their own day-to-day, but Frankie wished she lived closer to them. She’d be able to see them more often that way.

She opened the slider, letting Archie in ahead of her. Was she going to be alone for the rest of her life? She really hoped not.

Wait. Alone? She wasn’t going to be alone. At least not tonight. Holy cow, how had she forgotten? She rushed into Harper’s bedroom. Harper was sitting on the bed, working on her computer. “We have to get ready,” Frankie said. “Right now. I completely forgot.”

Harper looked up. “Forgot what?”

“Lucas Prime. Dinner. Tonight. Come on, we have to go!”

“Slow down and start from the beginning.”

“You know Lucas Prime? The YouTube chef?”

“Sure. He’s great.”

“Well, he invited us to dinner tonight. To taste-test some recipes.”

Harper narrowed her eyes. “How did that happen? Are you friends with him on social media or something?”

“No, I met him on the beach. Here. And Archie’s invited. He lives on the river side. I forgot to tell you. Come on, get ready!”

Harper pushed her laptop aside. “Lucas Prime lives in Hideaway Bay, you met him on the beach, he invited both of us to dinner, and you’re just telling me this now?”

“You were busy talking with Prisha and it slipped my mind, then we got back, and I told you about looking for our birth mother and…” Frankie shrugged. “Get ready! We’re supposed to be there in half an hour.”

“Half an hour?” Harper jumped off the bed.

Frankie ran upstairs and took the quickest shower of her life. She dabbed on simple makeup, but made sure to include a little eyeliner, mascara, and her brows. Good eyes were everything.

She changed into a blue and green tropical

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