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“Aquí tienes, hermosa.”
She furrowed her brow as she grabbed the shot. “I don’t speak Spanish.”
He leaned in, his deep, husky voice whispering, “I said, ‘Here you go, beautiful.’”
“Oh,” she said, and a soft smile lifted her lips. “Thank you.”
As he walked away, he cast a glance over his shoulder, and we all recognized the invitation he shot to Alice. We’d traveled with her long enough to know what that look meant.
I bumped her with my elbow. “Getting back on the horse?”
She looked at him and then gently shook her head. “No. Not yet, but it was nice to be called beautiful.”
Those simple words set me back. Did Alice doubt her beauty? That seemed impossible, yet I could see how she swelled up a bit at the simple phrase from the handsome bartender.
What the hell happened to her?
“Well, here’s to us.” Alice lifted her shot glass before any of us could press her. “To the Wilder Widows!”
“To the Wilder Widows!” we cheered, clinking our glasses together and then downing our tequila shots.
CHAPTER TEN
“No. I can’t do this. I’m gonna sit this wish out.” Doris pulled back against my grip while I tried to drag her up the gangway to this ship. “You girls have fun. I’ll just go back to the resort and wait.”
“Quit yer griping, Doris. You’re coming. We Wilder Widows stick together, dammit.”
“Marge, I can’t! I’m too scared!”
Sylvie stepped in front of us. “Doris, you ran with the bulls. Ran. With.Bulls.Just us scootin’ along with loose, aggressive Spanish fighting bulls trying to trample us into dust. And you know what? We survived! You did it, and didn’t it feel good to have accomplished it?”
She chewed on her lip. “Yes. I suppose. I mean, it did bring El Diablo to me. And I do love him.”
“See.” Alice chimed in. “You faced your fear, and wonderful things happened. Now we’re all going to face this next fear. Together. Because that’s how we Wilder Widows roll. We take Marge’s death-defying, horrifying, awful wishes head-on.” She slid a glare in my direction with a soft head shake. “None of us want to get in the water with the damn sharks.”
“I do,” I said quickly.
