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“Yes, it is,” Ava said. “Your ego can handle it. She’s still coming you said, what’s the big deal?”
“No big deal,” he said, frowning.
His brother was shaking his head at him. “If you say so.”
“I think I’ll go help Adele build a castle while I wait,” he said and walked to the beach.
“Uncle Carson, are you going to build with me?”
“I am,” he said. “Then I’m going to get my friend.”
“Who is your friend?” Adele asked. “Someone I know?”
“Yes,” he said. “But it can be a surprise.”
He knew Adele had spent time with Laine.
After fifty minutes and a lot of sand castles, he left to get his girlfriend.
Might as well call it like it was at this point. Seemed the whole island was aware of things.
He pulled in Laine’s driveway. He didn’t even have a chance to shut the car off and get out before she was coming out the front door with a tray in her hand.
“What did you make?” he asked her.
“Chocolate chip cookies. I don’t know anyone that doesn’t like them. I didn’t know if anyone had a peanut allergy or anything else.”
“No one in our family.” He reached his hand over and tried to get one out and she slapped it away when he pried the lid loose.
“You shouldn’t get one before anyone else, but since you came to pick me up you can have one. If I get a kiss first.”
“If you didn’t rush to my car I would have kissed you,” he said, leaning over.
She smacked her lips to his, then handed him a cookie. “You’re out of sorts,” she said. “What’s wrong?”
“My family knows.”
“Knows what?” she asked.
“Friday’s escapades,” he said. He figured he should give her fair warning.
“The whole island knows by now,” she said. “I heard some of it in the studio on Saturday. I told you that.”
“Not everything,” he said. “My family knows about the being pulled over.”
She laughed. “How did they find that out?”
“My father ran into Mac. Seems my quiet cousin thought it was funny to add to the story of everything that happened.”
“Sounds like we are the talk of the island. That’s not new for me.”
“It’s not?” he asked. “How come I didn’t know this?”
“Because I’ve lived here longer than you and you don’t follow in the same circle as what people were saying back then.”
He frowned. “What was said?”
“Nothing horrible or different than any other new person that moved here to open a business. Artists tend to get a reputation for being different.”
