Gina giggled.“That tickles.”She turned in Carson’s arms.“Make mine a caramel latte.”
“You got it.”Carson turned to the others in the room.“Anything for you, Alana, Flannigan?”
“I’m not Alana Flannigan.I did not marry this man.”
“That’s not what I meant.”Carson’s lips twisted.“Alana, do you want anything?”
“Yeah.”Alana jerked her head toward Chase.“Take him with you, will ya?”
“Wanna go?”Carson asked, his eyebrows rising.
Chase shook his head.“No, thanks.I’m heading down to find breakfast, after I shower and change.”
A cellphone chimed from Gina’s bedroom.She frowned and disappeared into the room.
Alana turned to face Chase.“Why are you still here?”
“I’m just leaving.”He spun on his bare heels and started for the door.
Gina called out, “Holy hell, Alana.You and Chase have to see this.”
Alana frowned.Gina tended toward drama.“What is it, now?”
“I got a text…fromyourphone number.”She entered Alana’s room, her face pale.“It’s not good.”
Alana’s frown deepened.“What do you mean?”
“Look at this.”Gina shoved her cellphone into Alana’s hand.
Alana glanced down.
UNKNOWN: Tell Alana her husband better meet me behindLa Casa Locaat midnight, or I kill the bitch.
“What the hell?”Her picture was at the top of the screen with her name beneath it.“That’s from my cellphone?”She shoved Gina’s phone at her and searched the room for hers.
“Let me see.”Chase bent over Gina’s cellphone and frowned.“Son of a bitch.”
“Where the hell is my phone?”Alana cried.When her search came up empty, she darted out the door and back down the hallway to Chase’s room.
He’d left the door open.
Alana pushed through and searched every corner of his room, but to no avail.She left his room and marched back to hers, meeting Chase at the door.“Who the hell has my phone?”
Chase shook his head and stepped out of her way.“I don’t know.If you recall, we’re both having challenges remembering what happened last night.”
“I have no clothes.I have no phone.”She flung her hands in the air.“And I thought this honeymoon couldn’t get worse.”She turned all of her anger on Chase and pointed to the door.“You.Man.Get out of my room.”
He stood with his arms crossed over his bare chest.“Can’t.”
“What do you mean,can’t?”
“You heard the threat.If I don’t show up at midnight, he’s going to hurt you.What’s to keep him from hurting you before that?”
“He has my phone, not my name or address.”Alana pointed to the door.“He’s not going to find me.”
“Cabo San Lucas isn’t all that big.If he’s a local, he may have ways to find you.And if he does, Iwillbe around to protect you.I don’t know why he wants a piece of me, but until I figure it out, you’re stuck with me.”
Gina snorted and laughed all at once.Then she clapped a hand over her mouth.“This is too funny.You came to Mexico to get away from your wedding and landed smack dab in another.The first groom ran off, and now you can’t get rid of this one.That’s rich.”She dissolved into a fit of giggling.
