Lakeshore Secrets: The McAdams Sisters - Kate McAdams (By The Lake Series Book 1) Read Free Page B
Author: Shannyn Leah
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hot job by yourself.”
He glared at her. “Honestly? Should I start addressing you as Isabelle?”
She playfully hit his shoulder. “Please don’t.” She waved and turned. He headed towards the pool room. He would read that contract before the two weeks were up.
Chapter Three
Booked into the Caliendo Resort–by herself, Kate was unpacking her suitcase when her phone vibrated. It was Derek...again.
She flipped it open. His text read, Sorry babe. Will see you when you get home.
She didn’t even respond to the lying jerk and tossed her phone on the sofa, groaning in frustration. Another reminder she was booked in, partially unpacked, and staying at the Caliendo Resort, and she was doing it all alone. She could have screamed. Quite possibly, in the large three room suite, no one may have heard her.
She stripped off her clothes with intentions of having a cold cascade in the gorgeous marble tile shower to cool the fire scorching beneath her skin. Instead, she slipped into her swimsuit, a cute little one piece she’d ordered online with the sides cut out but covering the middle, and pulled a dress overtop. A lap or two in the pool would be much more effective.
She took the elevator to the second floor where the pool room was, making her way past plenty of smiling and laughing guests enjoying their visit. Why wouldn’t they be lavishing themselves together in the highest rated resort in the area. The resort was tastefully sectioned off into two wings, one for families and the other for couples and singles, and offered plenty of amenities to attract guests. Their grand indoor pools, an indoor water park, game room, exercise room, three on-site restaurants with buffets, as well as indoor tennis courts and an outdoor golf course in the summer and a ski and snowboarding hill in the winter, this was the place to vacation. For a set rate you could also purchase an all-inclusive week stay. After Derek had requested the finest place to stay in the area, she could say she researched The Caliendo Resort and discovered it was the top rated but that would be a lie. She’d already known.
She was staying in the couples/singles wing of the resort, so it was quiet in the pool. No kids screaming and splashing the elderly couples floating in the shallow end. Then she spotted the sauna and abandoned the cold for the warmth. A relaxing moment was exactly what she needed to clear her thoughts and push Derek to the back burner so she could strengthen her emotions before she met with her dad and sisters.
The door was left wide open, and she pulled it shut behind her welcoming the warmth that penetrated deep into her skin like a calming embrace on her soul, easing the needed release of all the worry flagging her mind, even if it was only for twenty minutes.
“Ma’am, catch that door!” the loud voice startled her and she reached for the door, but it closed at her fingertips. She bit her bottom lip. Uh-oh. There was more than one reason for the alert bells that went off in her head, and they didn’t have anything to do with the closed door.
She slowly turned. The high temperature may have been warming her exterior but the jolting warmth tunneling into the deepest parts of her body like waves of electric shocks was because of the man emerging from the darkness. Her heart skipped a beat, then another and then another flanking each step he took closer.
Her body froze, and the dampness congested her throat. She watched him wipe a towel across his brow and then his hands before looking up. She could see only a glimmer of frustration in his familiar brown blue eyes, as he stared past her at the closed door, calm and collected, that was his facade. One might not recognize any frustration at all in those serious eyes, but she knew. That wasn’t all she could see either. Besides the expensive pressed slacks on the lower half of his body, it was the upper area where he had stripped away the plaid button-up collar shirt, which was resting on
He glared at her. “Honestly? Should I start addressing you as Isabelle?”
She playfully hit his shoulder. “Please don’t.” She waved and turned. He headed towards the pool room. He would read that contract before the two weeks were up.
Chapter Three
Booked into the Caliendo Resort–by herself, Kate was unpacking her suitcase when her phone vibrated. It was Derek...again.
She flipped it open. His text read, Sorry babe. Will see you when you get home.
She didn’t even respond to the lying jerk and tossed her phone on the sofa, groaning in frustration. Another reminder she was booked in, partially unpacked, and staying at the Caliendo Resort, and she was doing it all alone. She could have screamed. Quite possibly, in the large three room suite, no one may have heard her.
She stripped off her clothes with intentions of having a cold cascade in the gorgeous marble tile shower to cool the fire scorching beneath her skin. Instead, she slipped into her swimsuit, a cute little one piece she’d ordered online with the sides cut out but covering the middle, and pulled a dress overtop. A lap or two in the pool would be much more effective.
She took the elevator to the second floor where the pool room was, making her way past plenty of smiling and laughing guests enjoying their visit. Why wouldn’t they be lavishing themselves together in the highest rated resort in the area. The resort was tastefully sectioned off into two wings, one for families and the other for couples and singles, and offered plenty of amenities to attract guests. Their grand indoor pools, an indoor water park, game room, exercise room, three on-site restaurants with buffets, as well as indoor tennis courts and an outdoor golf course in the summer and a ski and snowboarding hill in the winter, this was the place to vacation. For a set rate you could also purchase an all-inclusive week stay. After Derek had requested the finest place to stay in the area, she could say she researched The Caliendo Resort and discovered it was the top rated but that would be a lie. She’d already known.
She was staying in the couples/singles wing of the resort, so it was quiet in the pool. No kids screaming and splashing the elderly couples floating in the shallow end. Then she spotted the sauna and abandoned the cold for the warmth. A relaxing moment was exactly what she needed to clear her thoughts and push Derek to the back burner so she could strengthen her emotions before she met with her dad and sisters.
The door was left wide open, and she pulled it shut behind her welcoming the warmth that penetrated deep into her skin like a calming embrace on her soul, easing the needed release of all the worry flagging her mind, even if it was only for twenty minutes.
“Ma’am, catch that door!” the loud voice startled her and she reached for the door, but it closed at her fingertips. She bit her bottom lip. Uh-oh. There was more than one reason for the alert bells that went off in her head, and they didn’t have anything to do with the closed door.
She slowly turned. The high temperature may have been warming her exterior but the jolting warmth tunneling into the deepest parts of her body like waves of electric shocks was because of the man emerging from the darkness. Her heart skipped a beat, then another and then another flanking each step he took closer.
Her body froze, and the dampness congested her throat. She watched him wipe a towel across his brow and then his hands before looking up. She could see only a glimmer of frustration in his familiar brown blue eyes, as he stared past her at the closed door, calm and collected, that was his facade. One might not recognize any frustration at all in those serious eyes, but she knew. That wasn’t all she could see either. Besides the expensive pressed slacks on the lower half of his body, it was the upper area where he had stripped away the plaid button-up collar shirt, which was resting on