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“Can we help?” I asked Richard. “Many hands make light work, right?”
Marilyn smiled over at me, but it was that strange smiling thing that she did. After blinking a couple of times, she said, “Well, isn’t that just the sweetest offer.”
“I’m not a stranger to washing dishes,” I chirped.
“Neither am I,” Saint added.
“Well, no offense, but my nails don’t do dishes,” Sarah snickered, waving her fingertips in the air.
Marilyn pursed her lips again, her face looking pinched. “Not a problem.”
“You guys go on, then,” Saint said, standing up. “Verity and I will stay behind and help.”
All in agreement, the others started filing out of the dining room while Saint pulled my chair out for me, helping me up. We immediately started to help gather the dishes, hoping to offset whatever problems Marilyn had with Lulee.
“You know, it was very kind of you two kids to offer to help,” Richard said. “We don’t get that very often.”
“Not a problem,” Saint replied easily, but I still couldn’t help feeling…off.
Something was not right.
Chapter 13
Saint~
After Verity and I had helped the Clarks clean up dinner, we’d gone back to the room, but we hadn’t remained there long. Within five minutes of returning, Lulee had flung the door to the cabin open, announcing that it was party time. Granted, the plan had been to hang out tonight anyway, but I still would have liked a few quiet moments with Verity before Lulee had shown up.
So, now we were all gathered at the patio set in between the jacuzzi and pool, and while Amity Expectations’ cabins were super high-tech, the spotty wi-fi left us with having to listen to Lulee’s downloaded playlist, rather than streaming a shuffle of artists. Luckily, we all kind of had the same taste in music, and the music was more like noise in the background since we were all bullshitting.
“I don’t know what it is about Mrs. Marilyn Clark, but I sure am glad they’re gone for the night,” Lulee said before taking a drink of her glass of wine. “Every time she spoke, I felt like my mom had come along with me for the trip.”
“She’s definitely a strange bird,” Cree agreed.
“I think she just has…she’s just older,” I said, trying to defend the weird woman. “They’re just from a different generation.”
“Her son and husband don’t seem like weirdos,” Lulee argued, and I almost winced at her insensitivity. “They seemed just fine-”
“Hey, neighbors!” We all turned to see Sarah and Kevin making their way over towards us, Sarah waving like we might miss her, and there wasno waythat anyone could miss her.
Holy crap.
Sarah had her red hair thrown up in a messy bun, wild strands framing her pretty face. For an influencer, I was surprised to see her face clean of makeup, but she didn’t need it. Being a classic redhead, her perfect complexion was sprinkled with delicate freckles, and her green eyes seemed bright with excitement. From the neck up, she looked like the fresh-faced girl next door. However, from the neck down…
The woman was wearing a white bikini, and the most important three scraps of fabric were barely the size of potato chips. Her bikini top was all string with only two triangles of material barely covering her nipples, and her bikini bottom was much of the same, all strings and only a barely-there triangle covering her modesty. Sarah was leaving absolutely nothing to the imagination, and from the glimmer in her eye, I’d say that she was very aware of that fact. I was also right about her breasts being overdone.
Behind her, carrying an ice chest, Kevin was dressed in only a pair of boardshorts, and it took everything in me not to grab Verity from her seat, then plant her ass on my lap. While Kevin wasn’t as tall as me and Cree, it was clear that the guy worked out, and he was also not shy about leaving nothing to the imagination. Granted, we should all probably be grateful that he didn’t have his dick out, but he was definitely peacocking next to his girlfriend. Now, while I did my best to correct the situation when I caught myself judging people, I couldn’t help but feel like these two knew that they were a good-looking pair and liked the attention. The fucker also had that blonde hair/blue eyes combo that most girls found sexy, and I wasn’t appreciating it one goddamn bit.
“Hey!” Lulee hollered back.
“You guys got room for two more?” Sarah asked, her bikini giving me serious issues. As chauvinistic as it sounded, there was no way in hell that I’d ever let Verity wear something like that. While I knew that Verity wasn’t a virgin, her secrets all belonged to me now.
“Of course,” Lulee answered. “You’re more than welcomed.”
Kevin and Sarah sat down together on one of the lawn recliners, setting their ice chest down next to them. Sarah immediately snuggled back up against Kevin, and that just pissed me off. Verity and I were the only ‘couple’ not snuggled up.
“We’re looking to dip into the jacuzzi in a bit,” Sarah announced. “Are you guys up for getting in?”
“Sure,” Lulee answered before looking over at Verity. “You game?”
