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Chapter 81: Ridge is Not Going to Like This
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Pelican Bay Security Chapter 82: Where We Going?
Bennett turns an unexpected way at the corner leading me to ask, "Where we going?""The bakery." It's a short gruff answer."I left Tabitha and Katy at the church. Are they okay?" I ask.Bennett huffs. "Ridge has it handled."Katy drove us to the church, but I have a feeling Bennett's definition of handled it doesn't mean Katy is giving Tabitha a ride home. Not that I expect him to give me the full details. Speaking of things he hasn't answered. "How did you know where I was?"He turns a corner. "Don't worry about it."It's not the answer I wanted, but I guess it will have to do because I'm not ready to ask him for any more details. If Ridge knows Tabitha is at the church, that's the most important part.In the early morning hours Main Street is dark, the streetlights illuminating bare sidewalks. Bennett pulls his truck into a space next to my car in the back parking lot and shuts off the engine."Are you coming in the bakery?" I'd expected him to drop me off out front
Pelican Bay Security Chapter 83: Not a Roving Biker Gang
I try to look innocent. "But not a roving biker gang."He doesn't laugh at my joke. "You deserve a spanking. But if that's not your thing, I understand."Is it my thing? I lift a single shoulder. "Will it hurt?""Only if you want it to." He curls one of his fingers silently telling me to come closer.I do, but only a step, thinking about my answer. "I don't think I want it to hurt, too much."When I get halfway to him, Bennett reaches out, grabs my hand, and pulls me the rest of the way. His lips ghost across my earlobe. "Lean over the table.""Right now?" My nervousness grows and I try to hide it behind the smile while heat pools in my core. I thought maybe we'd schedule it for next week. Scared and a little bit nervous, my body yells at me to get next to the table and lean my ass over."There's no better time than the present." Bennett places a hand on my shoulder turning my body to the table.I take over the rest for him leaning my upper body across the table, my arm
Pelican Bay Security Chapter 84: Time to Make the Doughnuts
The angry beeping from my phone fills the tiny little space I use as a bedroom.Bennett groans and rolls over, wrapping his arm across my chest. "What is that noise?""It's time to make the doughnuts," I say cheerfully trying to imitate the commercials. But after only an hour of sleep, I fail miserably.I have to start making more money so I can hire more help. Someone who likes mornings. And baking.Bennett rolls to his back, his hand flopping on the side the bed. "What time is it?""5 a.m.""Fuck. I have to get home. I'm going to owe Dolores so much money for staying the night. And I'll have to call in to Ridge since I have no one to watch Liam today."Bennett sounds as defeated as I am tired. It can't be an easy job being thrown into full-time dad lifestyle. If possible my heart simultaneously breaks and yet fills with love and respect for the man lying next to me. There's so much talk about single moms out there but what about the single dads? The one beside me is doi
Pelican Bay Security Chapter 85: Do Your Thing
Tabitha walks the little plate to the table where Bennett dropped Liam's backpack and sits down to help him get arranged into his chair. She pulls out a single napkin from the dispenser placed in the windowsill because Pearl doesn't like it taking up her tabletop. It's a good thought, but I'm pretty sure we'll need a lot more napkins by the time he's done. I have nightmares about the last time he ate chocolate around me and cleaning it off with sea water.It takes him longer than I expected to finish off both of his sweets. Twenty minutes later he finishes the second, his body pumped full of sugar as he scribbles frantically in his coloring book. Tabitha took him to the back to color on my prep table to contain the jitters when we worried he'd knock over his chair from all the bouncing. His lifetime supply of cookies may be regulated to one a day from here on out.I will forever look at doughnuts in a completely new way from this point on. They are no longer chocolatey goodness, bu
Pelican Bay Security Chapter 86: Bring an Extra Lawn Chair
"Do you need us to bring an extra lawn chair?" Tabitha asks, tapping her pencil on the piece of lined paper where she started a list for tonight's festival.A group of us — me, Katy, Bennett, Tabitha and Ridge — are meeting up to watch the Fourth of July fireworks together down by the pier. Probably the place everyone is getting together to watch the Fourth of July fireworks.I'd planned to bring a beach towel and sit on the sand. It's not like I packed a lawn chair in my car when I made the cross country drive to Pelican Bay, but I'm not one to refuse the offer of a seat. "Sure, if you don't mind."She waves a hand in the air. "Ridge has a garage full of them."It's hard to believe today's the Fourth of July. Most days it feels like it was yesterday when I loaded up the last of my belongings in the back of my car and waved goodbye to my mom and dad. I'd been ready to set off on a great new adventure. Ever since landing here, the excitement hasn't stopped.New friends, new bo
Pelican Bay Security Chapter 87: Help One Nice Guy and Get the World
If business continues on this trend, soon I'll be able to hire additional help. Maybe one day in the far future I'll be able to buy a house somewhere in Pelican Bay. Put down roots. If I allow my mind to really wander, I picture Bennett in my future and giving Liam a little brother.If I bake enough cookies and bring people in the door.It's everything I hoped for and yet nothing I actually thought I'd get. I'm just a small town college dropout from Washington. This all seems way too good to be true. I can't help but question if some of it is fate. I help one nice guy find a place to stay for the night on his Christmas vacation with his girlfriend, which leads to an enormous tip. The money finishes off my savings and this place came on the market right as I began my search. It's perfect.Without the help of that stranger's money, it would've taken me years to get enough saved up. Pierce would've rented the place to a sandwich maker and the story would be completely different. The
Pelican Bay Security Chapter 88: It's a Little Pink for Me
"You did good things to the place. It's a little pink for me, but to each their own."I stay on the ground not moving as he continues to survey the kitchen almost like he's reminiscing. Unfortunately, it doesn't last long. At least not long enough for me to make it to the security panel and hit the panic button."I'm gonna need you to come with me," he says, his attention finally returning to me.I shake my head. "That's not a good idea."He sighs. "That's too bad, you looked nice. I thought I'd be able to do this without a lot of violence."Violence?He drops the hand from behind his back and I wish he hadn't. What is it with adults and the overuse of guns? I've seen so many the last two weeks, my reaction to another is totally out of character. Meaning I do nothing. There's no screaming, or flinching, nothing but a bunch of deep breaths."Okay." I stand up with my hands in the air.He smiles the same hole between his teeth standing out. "This is the kind of listening
Pelican Bay Security Chapter 89: An Abandoned Cabin
At the end of the dirt track is a clearing with an obviously old and hopefully abandoned cabin. Ridge has commented about these old forgotten family hunting cabins that are scattered across the county, but this is my first experience seeing one firsthand. I'm not impressed."Time to go," Kevin says, not giving me time to object. Again, he's the one holding the gun. I guess he gets to decide when we leave and where we go.The wooden porch steps creak and moan as we walk up them. The middles bend and I worry about falling through, but Kevin runs up them directly behind me not at all worried. Inside the cabin is empty. Old dusty cobwebs have settled in all the corners, and our feet leave prints as we walk across the floor. At the end of the large open space I assume to be a living room is an open area leading to a small kitchen. To our right a set of steps leads upstairs."Sit."I don't ask any questions or argue but sit on the dirty floor. More of the deep breaths I've perfected
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