I glanced at Sam, whose eyes were bulging out of his head. “Um…that seems like totally overstaying my welcome.”
“If it’s not safe, it’s best you stay here.”
Sam swallowed. “If you’re sure?”
“Thank you, Winston. You can prepare one of the rooms.”
He left without a word, and I looked at Sam. “Is there anyone you need to advise that you won’t be home?”
“Maybe Maggie? She fed Bubbles earlier, but the damn cat needs love when she sleeps, so she may have to bring her to her place.”
“Go ahead and give her a call.”
Sam nodded and took out his phone but before he could call, he asked me, “Did you maybe want to watch a movie or something after?”
Did I? No, not really. Movies didn’t thrill me like they once had. But Sam’s hopeful expression was beginning to do something to me.
“Sure, Sam.”
And that was how I spent the evening watching a horror movie, followed by a rom-com because Sam said he couldn’t sleep with the scary thoughts stuck in his head.
Fucking humans.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Sam
“We watchedTerrifier,which was totally a bad idea, so then we watchedMiss Congeniality, which shook off all the creepies from my skin.”
I was at the Corner Café with Ben and Natalie. It had been two days since I’d gone to Lancaster Island and the first time I’d been able to get the two of them together.
“Didn’t you also say dinner was delicious?” Ben asked.
“So good.”
I did my best to describe what the whole place looked like but I wasn’t a writer, and my words didn’t do it justice.
“Was it weird sleeping there?” Natalie bit into her raspberry scone, her eyes unblinking…clearly she’d had a lot of sugar today.
“The room I was in was plucked out of a fairy tale. Four-poster king-sized bed with, like, a trillion thread count, a fireplace, a reading nook, and the view…and oh, oh, a Jacuzzi bathtub!”
“Wow,” Ben and Natalie said in unison.
“It was so awesome.”
“You got to cross things off your bucket list, too.” Natalie smiled.
“I did, and I also did a little butt dance at the same time.”
They laughed and we sat in silence for a minute, drinking our coffees and eating our scones.
“How did you both leave off?” Ben wiped his mouth and sat back.
“He brought me to shore after breakfast and said goodbye.”
Ben blinked slowly. “That’s it?”
“We didn’t have some sexy encounter, Ben. I was stranded there due to the storm, and he was nice enough to let me sleep over.”
