I live here for a month every summer,” I shared, trying to nonchalantly smooth my unruly red curls and straighten my yellow sundress, suddenly very ...ware of my appearance.Of course I run into my old crush when I look disheveled as hell.“What a coincidence, me too!” Jeremy shared excitedly, “I normally come here in July, but I came a month early this year instead, maybe that’s why I’ve never seen you.”He hadn’t changed a bit. Tall, dark hair, brown eyes, lean body, soft lips. Memories of us. But that stops immediately. The next time I hear about you going all bull-headed it better be for a damned good reason. OK?" Yes, sir," Renaldo replied. "Most of the time I'm not lucky enough to work with people like this. Do you mind if I use some of the discards for my portfolio? I won't try to sell them or anything. But I could take any picture from today and use it to drum up business." Go ahead," Jerry told him. "As a bonus to you, Dazzle will go 25 percent with you on anything you want to. I was expecting an enormous card payment ... but ... no. Zoe was buying deepwater safety gear while Cyn was buying ... dental floss and gun patches and referring to them as bathing attire.When we finally dipped the hull and reset the mast and new rigging I found I had spent more than Surprise had spent buying her and her first refit. Of course, my poor efforts reduced the working force by one go-fer boy ... but I did learn and had gotten disreputably dirty and stinky daily. I now knew how to. First stop was down by the pool, but Brenda wasn’t there. Applying the razor sharp logic he occasionally boasted of to his wife, though lacking her usual biting response, he figured she was one of two places. She was either down at the beach or at the tiki bar along the way. The third option, that she had headed down to the far end of the beach, he dismissed immediately. While it was conceivable that Brenda might visit there again, she would never go by herself. He stopped in the tiki bar.