Page 84 of Three Little Wishes

“You might,” August said, earning him a scowl from his grandfather and a giggle from Riley.

Willow laughed. “I’m getting another lobster costume in his size.”

“That’ll be the day you’ll catch me in a lobster costume,” Amos said gruffly, but she caught the twinkle in his eyes.Blue eyes that she couldn’t help but notice were the same shade as hers and his grandson’s.

August looked up from his phone with a grin. “Dad says he’s going to become a stakeholder in Channel 5 too. Only he’s buying more shares so he can override any decisions you make, Gramps.”

“Give me that thing,” he said, taking his grandson’s phone. The three of them bit back smiles as Amos tried typing out a response to his son, cursing at the small keys.

Willow smiled at Riley. “Are you having fun?”

Riley nodded, casting a sidelong glance at August before returning her gaze to Willow. “Your speech was great, and I won the date with you. Noah bid for it.”

“Awesome. We’ll have to plan what we’re going to do. And speaking of your brother, I haven’t seen him since the auction ended.”

“He said he had something to do but he’d be back… There he is.” Riley pointed at the dance floor, and then she frowned. “Sage is with him. She looks kind of frazzled.”

Willow turned to see Noah and Sage skirting the couples on the dance floor. Her sister looked beyond frazzled. Her black suit was wrinkled, and she had a serious case of bedhead, while Noah in his black suit looked as if he’d stepped off the cover of a magazine. Willow might’ve spent a few minutes enjoying the view if it weren’t for the fierce expression on his face. Her first thought was,What has Cami done now?

She figured she was about to find out when Noah grabbed her by the hand, nodded a polite hello to the Monroe family, and then said to Riley, “Willow and I have to leave. Sage is your chaperone. She’ll be taking you home at ten.”

“Is everything okay?” Willow asked, her gaze moving from Noah to her sister.

Sage opened her mouth, but before she had a chance to respond, Noah said, “We have to go,” and half dragged Willow across the dance floor. She smiled apologies at the people whose dancing they interrupted and the people whose chairs they bumped against as they wove their way past the tables and the bar and out the inn’s entrance doors.

“Noah, what’s going on?” she asked as he opened the passenger-side door of the Mercedes for her.

Her mouth fell open when he closed it without answering. What the… He jogged around the hood of the car with that same fierce expression on his face, opened the door, slid behind the wheel, slammed the door shut, and pulled onto Main Street.

Her heart in her throat, she managed to whisper, “Did Cami do something?”

He glanced at her with a frown. “No.”

“Did something happen to my mom? My nonna?”

“No. Your family is fine. There’s nothing to worry about.”

“There is so. You’re driving over forty miles an hour in a twenty-five-mile-an-hour zone.”

His lips twitched. “Not until September first it isn’t.”

“Where are we going?”

“You’ll see in approximately ten minutes. Six if you stop talking and don’t give me grief for going over the speed limit.”

“I won’t be the one giving you grief. It’ll be the cops when they pull you over.” Her phone pinged, and she took it out of her purse. “Great. The committee members are mad at me for leaving without helping with the cleanup.”

“They should be kissing the ground you walk on. Without you, the event wouldn’t have been the success it was. You raised a phenomenal amount of money for the fine arts center. Not to mention, by my calculations, if everyone who expressed an interest in becoming stakeholders in Channel 5 is any indication, you’ll have guarantees for the full amount of the offer, which means you’ll have no issues with the bank when you approach them for a loan to cover operating costs for your first year.”

“Don didn’t mention anything about a loan.”

“Don didn’t actually think it was going to happen.” He smiled. “But you proved him wrong, Willow.”

“Not just me. Everyone at…” She trailed off as a familiar car drove by them. “I’m almost positive that was my mom and my nonna.”

He turned down the road without responding, and then he parked in the empty lot.

“Why are we at Hidden Cove?”