Page 22 of Love Unforgettable
Chapter 9
Cole
I take a minute to brush the dust off my jeans before I head into the restaurant. After I toured everything today with Earl, I didn’t end up with time to shower before heading to dinner. Looking down, I realize I could’ve at least changed my jeans. A quick sniff of my pits, has me grabbing deodorant from the center console and rolling more on. A brush of my fingers through my hair, and I’m as ready as I’ll ever be.
The restaurant is light and airy, so it doesn’t take long for my eyes to adjust to the interior once inside. I see Mavis sitting with a girl I’m assuming is her granddaughter at a table near the windows. The view is amazing, all crystal blue water as far as the eye can see. I let the hostess know that I see the party I’m meeting and head toward them.
My concern is that this dinner is a set up. When I spoke with Babs a little bit ago, she let it slip that Mavis would be bringing her granddaughter tonight, which strikes me as odd because I don’t remember a granddaughter from when I was younger and would spend summers with Pappy and Babs.
In fact, if I’m not mistaken, the Strassbergs had one son who died in a car accident just after college with no wife and no kids. Though, knowing Babs, if this girl is some scamming imposter, she and Mavis would have put a stop to it a while ago. Not much scares me more than my very shrewd Babs and her equally intelligent “bestie.”
