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Chapter 84: Time to Make the Doughnuts
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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
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Pelican Bay Security Chapter 90: Something is Not Right
The sun is warm in the area on my cheek where my head rests on the pillow. It's my first clue something is not right. I haven't been able to sleep in long enough to have the sun wake me up in...too damn long.Another half a second passes and I remember it's Friday. Two days ago I survived a kidnapping. I'm allowed to sleep in today. Another stretch to fix the kink in my body so I can sleep longer, but the muscles in my back protest.The clock on Bennett's side of the bed reads 10:07.I retract my earlier statement. I haven't slept this late since high school.Another minute happens before my mind kicks in and realizes it's 10:07 in the morning and nobody has called me. That seems unlikely. Especially since I left Tabitha in charge of Katy while running my bakery. I spent all day yesterday in the bakery cooking. Everything from donuts in the morning to cupcakes, cookies and a few new items I wanted to try. Baking helped to work through the anxiety of my kidnapping. And while Rid
Pelican Bay Security Chapter 91: Three Hours
"Are you sure this is what you want to do?" Bennett asks as his truck idles in the parking lot behind the bakery."Yes.""It's supposed to be a day off, Anessa.""Yes, but you need time with Liam." Bennett spent a lot of time the last few weeks saving me from bad guys and chasing down drug dealers. With Kevin on the run and none of Ridge's team or the local police departments able to track him down, there is still a lot of work to do. He should spend a day off with his son. "Plus I want to visually confirm that Tabitha isn't cooking.""I'll be back to pick you up in three hours," he says leaning across the cab to give me a quick kiss. "Three hours."When he deepens the kiss, it's time for me to go. Even after what we did an hour ago, kissing Bennett is never enough. Unfortunately, I have responsibilities and he has a child, so realistically we can't spend an entire day in bed having sex.I stop in my back door and turn, watching his truck in the parking lot before waving go
Pelican Bay Security Chapter 92: From Bennett
* Bennett *I swipe my thumb across the print scanner and, when it beeps, open the door. The heavy steel door opens with a squeak. Behind it Ridge's private office. The one he doesn't show anyone else. This is where the real action happens and where he keeps all his private files on our high profile clients."I thought you were gonna do something about that?" I ask taking a seat in front of the large desk in the middle the room. Papers and manila folders are stacked in tall piles on either side of Ridge.He looks up from whatever he'd been working on with flattened lips. "The door? I'd have time to take care of the door if I wasn't always chasing someone's girlfriend around.""Hey, Anessa was not my girlfriend when this whole thing started. And the first time it was your girlfriend." I laugh, stretching back in the metal chair. He can complain all he wants, but the truth the matter is Ridge lives for the kind of excitement we've had the last few months. We all do. "Doesn't your
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