So, while the men
are out perhaps fatally piloting a boat, the ladies are chilling in
Erika's room, being cold, and sad that their menfolk are gone.
Catrina seems to actually like Douglass again. Eh, my prediction was
close enough, then. (Spoilers: Only one person gets injured.) Other
than that, the women are boring.
Several hours
later, a light heads toward the jetty. It's still pouring down rain,
by the way. The women dash down the burglar-friendly stairs of
Erika's rooms out to the jetty to see if it's their menfolk. Oh hey,
it totally is! Frankie's injured, so Erika calls an ambulance for
him. When the ambulance gets there, Douglas and Lalla pile inside
and ride to the hospital. Wait! What about the free drinks Erika
promised everyone when they got back?
Now that Lalla's
gone, Erika asks Glen for more details about Frankie's injuries.
Because, she won't find out at the hospital? Apparently, Frankie
ripped open the bottom of the boat he borrowed and he ended up lying
on the beach probably almost the whole time he was missing. He had a
bad gash on his head from something to do with this. When Glen and
Douglas showed up in a boat, Frankie took off for the other side of
the island and dove into the churning water, and ended up nearly
drowning himself. Douglas saved Frankie's life, swimming him back to
land and getting the water out of his lungs, even though the kid was
freaking out. That's damn impressive.
Anyway, after
praising Douglas, the group scatters. Catrina goes back to her
rooms, Glen goes to use Erika's shower (the cure for rain? More
water!) and Erika follows Catrina to get some of Douglas' clothes for
Glen to borrow. Erika walks back into her room to find Glen wrapped
in a towel. Oh hay der! However, Erika does not engage in any of
the usual romance novel behaviors (taking off his towel, other
sexy-time activities, or even really talking to him). Instead, Erika
says she doesn't have time to talk about their relationship now, and
does not agree to go talk to him tomorrow night, after Felix and Joni
leave. She says she's going to treat Glen like any other guest now.
Hah!
Erika makes sure
Lalla got home okay and gives her all the time off she needs, and
Douglas makes it back to the hotel okay and has room service send up
some food. Then, I assume, everything settles down for the night and
they all sleep. Well, maybe not all of them. We find out the next
day that Douglas and Catrina have made up. He looks “sleekly
contented” and she is “radiant”. I mean, I'm not saying
anything, but I'm just sayin'...
Oh, also, they made
a Moongate wish. That morning. Anyway, they're off to see Frankie
in the hospital one last time before they take a plane back to
Scotland. After she sees them off, Erika looks for the Lichtmans,
the couple whose dinghy Frankie trashed. Glen has already talked to
them and taken care of getting them a new one. Because Glen is
paying for the boatyard to get a new boat, they won't level charges
against the person who stole the boat, Frankie. Glen's so kind and
generous, and confusing since he's a playboy too. Erika reflects on
how she doesn't think she'll ever understand him fully. Then she
thinks that she won't get the chance to. No, Erika, you're not
giving yourself the chance to understand him. There's a difference
between fate taking him away and you driving him away.
Glen is trying to
get Erika to go visit Frankie in the hospital with him, but Erika
doesn't want to go with him. Whatever. We know she totally does,
deep inside where she still likes him, so she ends up going. On
their way over, Denver (Head Chef) hands a radio to them for Frankie.
The staff had a bit of a whip-around and they used the money to buy
that for him. On the ride over to the hospital, Glen is bitter and
Erika tells him that she genuinely wants his work to succeed. It's
not a personal thing. Glen retorts that making music has a lot to do
with his emotional state, which totally makes it a personal thing.
So there. Erika doesn't answer this because they're at the hospital.
Quick ride.
They find Frankie
and Glen greets him with, “How's tricks?” ...What? You
just...What? It probably meant something different in the '80's. At
least, I hope so. Anyway, Erika and Glen talk Frankie out of his
depression over what cranky Walter said to him. Probably. Oh, hey!
Scar discussion! Remember that scar on Glen's face that didn't mar
his beauty but only added to it? Well, he got it being dumb. The
story is that when Glen was younger, he picked a fight with a bigger
boy, but Glen left his mark on that kid too. Yup. That's the whole
story. What a let-down after the dramatic scar in The Devil Earl,
but I suppose not every book can be that dramatic.
On
the car ride back, Erika confides that she knows what Glen did, as
far as the dinghy, and it makes her think he's generous. Glen
replies that he didn't have to spend much money for her to think
that, and she tells him that he didn't buy the boat for her good
opinion. She just knows it, okay? Glen suggests that they just keep
driving, and don't go back to the hotel, but Erika's got work to do.
Glen says she needs to come talk to him at the villa of love later
(yes, I'm still calling it that). Erika finally agrees to talk to
him, if only to stop keeping her pain to herself and throw it at his
head instead. Well, I guess it's better than continuing to avoid the
subject. Erika says she doesn't know when she'll be over, but Glen
promises to wait for her. Forever. ...I made that last word up, but
it's implied. Sort of.
Another
exciting chapter! We've made it over the half-way point. I guess
that means things are going to ramp up. I guess I'd better do the
same for my predictions. All right, in the next chapter...Erika will
take a shower and debate about what clothes she wants to wear to talk
to Glen. She'll put on one outfit after another, discarding one
because it's too slutty and another because it's not slutty enough.
Finally, she'll settle on a favorite sundress, do her make-up to
match, and agonize over her hair. She'll decide to put it up and
away from temptation. Then, she'll leave to go see Glen and the
chapter will end there. ...but only if the author is a troll.
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