“I’m just destined never to have any alone time again,” Sarah mutters. “Anyway, what’s been going on?”
“Nothing exciting,” Luna replies, earning a scowl from June.
“Are youkiddingme?” June demands. “We started on the trim inside the inn. The floors are done, at least on the first floor. And the outside is being painted. All of that isn’t just exciting, it’s”—she waves her hands about, as if she’s searching the word—“remarkable.”
“Well, yes, there’s that,” Luna clarifies as I look over to Wolfe. He’s just watching her with big ole heart eyes. I wonder if he’s told her about the charity race he wants to do yet. “But I meant that there wasn’t anygossip.That’s all. Geez, don’t get testy.”
“Let’s go get some beers,” I suggest to the guys, and the three of us leave the girls to chat and go inside. “Any word about who could be trying to get to Sarah?”
“I’ve been in touch with Cullen since you’ve been gone,” Apollo says. “So far, they don’t have much to go on. And there’s been no new activity since last week. No one tried to get into the house while you were gone, from what we can tell.”
“I tried to do some digging on the ex,” Wolfe adds, his face grim. “From everything I can find on him, and there’s plenty, he’s a ruthless asshole. Didn’t do much of anything to actually make his money. He came into it the old-fashioned way. He inherited it.”
“Sarah mentioned that he worked really hard.”
“At his golf game, maybe,” Wolfe says with a shrug. “I don’t see where he actually works a job. He doesn’t hide the fact that he sleeps around, and about a month after their divorce was final, he remarried. She’s ridiculously young.”
“He likes them young,” I mutter. “Well, thanks for checking.”
“From what I can see, he’s a prick, but he’s not the type to harass her. I don’t think he’d know how, and if he’s already remarried and focused on that, I doubt he’d come looking for Sarah.”
“You’re probably right.” I nod and open the beer, taking a sip. “Hey, did you ever tell Luna about that race you want to do?”
He opens his mouth to answer, when we hear behind us, “What fucking race?”
ChapterFifteen
Sarah
“Whoa!” June yelps when the wind takes her hat clean off her head and blows it down the beach. “I guess I didn’t need that hat anymore.”
“I think it’s time to take this party inside.” I pick up the plate of sandwiches and my drink. “Looks like we might get a spring storm.”
“We could use some rain. It’s beensucha dry spring,” Luna adds as we walk inside, just in time to hear Tanner ask Wolfe a question.
“Hey, did you ever tell Luna about that race you want to do?”
June and I look at each other, and Luna erupts with, “What fucking race?”
“I take it that’s a no,” Apollo says and sips his beer. “Oops.”
“What race, Wolfe?”
The man in question rubs the back of his neck and looks grim as he turns to his fiancée. “It’s acharityrace, Luna.”
“Yeah, well, acharityrace ended your career, so that doesn’t make me feel any better.”
“Shit,” Wolfe mutters and walks to the windows.
“Should we leave for this conversation?” June asks me.
“Hell no,” Apollo answers. “I want to watch them fight. We should make popcorn.”
“You’re such a toddler,” June grumbles, but none of us look away from Wolfe and Luna as they square off.
“I haven’t agreed to it,” Wolfe continues.
“You haven’t even breathed a word about it to me,” Luna replies. “But apparently, your buddies know. Do the girls know, too? Are they expected to keep it a secret until you can find the right time to break it to me? Probably while we’re having sex or something, when you can sneak something by me.”