A/N Thank you PerryLovesDella for beta checking.
Return to Castle Cove
Chapter 1
"That little hussy! She made me the murder victim this time! Not only that -" Eve's voice rose two octaves in outrage. "- she has Noah dumping me?! I will have you all know, I ended things with that mama's boy!"
Trying to concentrate on not cutting anything she shouldn't while Eve kept moving her head, Loretta tried placating her. "It's fiction. Literary license. Everyone knows that."
Phyllis, on the other hand, enjoying stoking the fire, told her. "Page 36."
Eve flipped ahead quickly. Her mouth dropped open. "I have never, not in all my life, weighed 140 pounds!"
With her head under the dryer, Ideal was not a part of the conversation. Instead, she was heavily engrossed in the book.
Ideal's eyes widened to the size of saucers and her hand went to her chest as she gasped. "Oh my goodness! I never knew! I always suspected, but I never knew!"
Seeing her reaction, the ladies all turned her way.
" Ideal, honey, what page?" Loretta asked.
When Ideal didn't answer, an impatient Phyllis lifted the dryer off of her head and Loretta asked again.
"One hundred and seventy-two." Ideal told them.
As Eve hurried to flip ahead on her copy & Phyllis on hers, Loretta commented. "Ideal, you little speed reader, you! I had no idea you could read that fast."
"Oh I don't." Ideal explained. "I just skip over any pages that don't have someone taking their clothes off."
Forgetting the scissors in her hand, reading over Eve's shoulder, Loretta's eyes widened as well. As all the other ladies caught up to what Ideal had been reading, hers weren't the only ones.
"Ladies, correct me if I am remembering wrong, but ah …" Loretta cleared her throat before asking. " ... didn't Sybil stay over at Jessica's house when she was last in town?"
tbc
