This excerpt is an excerpt from
Island Surprise based on the included picture prompt. Dan and Lacy are walking along the beach at their hotel after
their wedding and before Claire sees him on the island.
Lacy and Dan strolled along the
beach hand in hand. Lacy squeezed his hand, tugging on his arm. “What’s wrong?
You seem a bit preoccupied. The stress of the wedding is over. You should be
relaxing now.”
“I’m just worried that
Crystal will try something crazy.”
“Why? You paid her off,
didn’t you?” Lacy threw her long black hair back, but the wind fought her.
Looking down at his bare feet
in the sand Dan muttered. “Yeah, I gave her a check for 20,000 thousand, and
said I’ll pay her more once the baby’s born. I told her I’ll support the baby.
But I get feeling that it’s not going to be enough.”
As Dan looked out at the
ocean waves illuminated by the moonlight, his mind returned to the day it all
changed. The day his causal fling, Crystal Matheson told him she was pregnant,
with his baby. He tried to play it off like it wasn't his at first.
Crystal looked up at him.
“Come on Dan, I’m not seeing anyone but you, and you know it. I love you, and I
thought you’d be happy about this. We’re going to have a baby. I so hope he
looks like you, babe.” She said massaging his arm as they stood under the Stone
Arch in Central Park two weeks earlier.
Dan’s smartphone beeped. He
pulled out the sporty cell and read the text message. A shot of adrenaline
raced through his system when he saw the message was from Crystal. I just
checked into the hotel, babe. I’m in room 622. He exited the message, and
jammed the phone in his the pocket of his chinos.
Lacy stepped back and watched
his expression change to complete shock.
He faced her, eyes wide
open. “She’s here.”
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I like how you are giving us the back story on Lacy and Dan. I wonder what Lacy is going to do that her husband's fling is on the same island.
ReplyDeleteThat is some ending, you are going to continue it, right
ReplyDeleteObviously the $20k wasn't enough. I wonder what's gonna happen next.
ReplyDeleteI'm just wondering WHY Lacy is with Dan? I know I have a lot of catching up to do but if two weeks earlier he was hooking up with someone and now he's on his honeymoon with some other person, I must be missing something. A GREAT BIG SOMETHING. I guess I'll have to buy the book.
ReplyDeleteThe backstory on Dan! Things seem to be heating up here. So now we know who it was and why. Am loving this story. Great piece and, I know, I was disappointed when the 300 words was up, too.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great job in packing so much info into 300 words.
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone for stopping by and commenting. I'm having fun creating this story. The excerpt I posted came from a longer scene, so I had to cut it down to fit the word limit.
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