�We have the Soave, miss. Do you want it here or at one of the tables?� - Romance short story series
Glia Lucca smoothed her linen skirt and took a deep breath. �I feel that couch looks lovely. Thanks.�
Glia loved the cover in the Revere Hotel. She loved relaxing, and often swimming inside the glassed-in pool. The place reminded her of South Beach, as she thought it was meant to.
�May I order the young lady�s wine?� She looked from the corner of her eye to determine a well-built man, mid-thirties like Glia. He had a ready smile and good hygiene. He have also been nicely dressed in chinos plus a pressed shirt, but not overly done. Let's begin, she thought - and that i barely sat down.
Jake Timulty assessed the lady in the linen suit and silk shirt with interest. Nice-looking, however, not overly done, he thought. Maybe her appeal is the business set that frequented the Revere. She sure isn�t cheap, he mused as he paid the fifteen dollar tab on her glass of vino, and accepted his or her own micro-draught from your server.
�Thank you,� she moved over around the couch but didn't indicate that she wanted him around her space. �Glia Lucca,� she offered her hand. Her handshake really was firm, he thought. Nice. �Jake Timulty.�
Mentally assessing him for geographical area and selecting Southie Irish Boston, she thought she must achieve success if he was frequenting bars like the Rooftop and drinking microbrews.
She doesn�t sound Boston, he thought, but recognized a faint Italian accent.
The getting-to-know-you lasts with information gathering for some time, with skepticism and humor�until he flips open his shield, thinking she�s an escort, and she laughs in the face - a journalist on a pick-up assignment from her newspaper! The odd couple they're, while they met with humor - she grew up in Little Italy in New York and graduated cum laude from Harvard journalism. He, a Boston Southie, using a degree in Criminology from John Jay in New York! She a Yankee fan - he a born and bred Red Sox supporter.
There is a good-bye, nice to fulfill you, followed nearly immediately by alerts on each of these phones. They meet again on the scene - a presumed explosion. Day-to night, they end up in her hotel room.
A modern-day Nick and Nora, they solve the crime, fall madly in love and live to determine another plot! - Romance short story series