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“Marvelous. Now, we have some clues here regarding an international destination we need to identify.”
“By any means necessary,” Bea added.
“That’s right, so don’t worry that we’re cheating, Adam. Plenty of people here are calling their grandkids. Alright, this clue here says that this place is home to the Caribbean’s first World Surfing Reserve. Any ideas?”
“I know that’s Punta Borinquen, but I’m trying to recall the city,” Adam paused for a split second. “Oh, Aguadilla.”
My jaw dropped. How on earth did he know that random piece of trivia?
“Agua what now?” his grandma repeated. “Can you spell that?”
Adam dutifully spelled out one letter at a time. “Anything else?”
“I think that’s it for now! Thank you, Adam!
“Any time,” he replied, giving his grandma a tender smile.
Ellie and I exchanged a look. “He’s adorable,” she mouthed.
“I know,” I mouthed back. Dr. Donaldson was impressive, but Adam-the-grandson was cuter than a golden retriever puppy wearing a bowtie.
“Onto the next place,” Bea’s voice said. “Clue number one: this city houses multiple red-light districts.”
“Oh, Adam wouldn’t know anything about that,” Grandma said with certainty.
Adam pressed his phone’s screen frantically.
“Maybe we should call—” Whomever Bea was about to suggest was lost to us as the call finally disconnected.
Adam slid his phone back into his pocket, not meeting our gazes. “Sorry for the interruption.”
Ellie fanned her hand in front of her eyes. “Oh my goodness; that wassosweet. I might cry.”
“She’s a really special person,” Adam agreed. “Uh, more sushi?”
My own phone buzzed in my purse, and Ellie started telling Adam about her grandma, a Manhattan real estate mogul who wasnotthe nurturing type, as I fished to retrieve it.
My mom texted a picture of my dad next to another middle-aged man with a beer gut. Both men were holding a river trout high, and neither smiled.Daddy and his coworker Travis fishing. Could be a good “catch” for you!
For a second, I wanted to write back and ask Mom if her message was a joke. My next thought was to demand whether Mom were really so desperate for me to find a date for the wedding that she’d push me to go with a man who could get a senior discount without asking for it.
Mom would be devastated if I said something that rude. But I was pretty distraught myself that she thought Travis was a good match for me.
Another message popped up from Mom.Do you want me to tell Travis about you?
I absolutely did not, but I wasn’t sure how to say it without making her worried that I was upset. Then she’d call and make it a whole big thing, and in the end, I’d give in and go with Travis.
I glanced at Adam, who was listening to Ellie’s long-winded tale with slightly wide-eyed bemusement.
He didn’t seem like a jerk or a liar. The way he talked about his grandma was precious.
And if I were being totally honest, I really liked him.
No. I met someone, I replied.
Within a second of hitting send, my mom tried to reach me with a video call.
Can’t talk now but will call you later.
