Hair of the Dog (2013)
“He crooned a bawdy country-western tune to a stuffed deer head above the bar of his favorite watering hole. With his dear friends, as he’d called them, around him, he’d drunk not only his quota of beer, but also Ivy’s.
“Let’s go up to the hot springs,” he suggested with a pronounced slur to his words and a wink that caused bile to rise in her throat.
“The pool is closed this time of night,” she pointed out.
Buzzed or not, she was the manager. And she didn’t want to get caught there—again—after ...hours only to be ejected by Jack, the maintenance guy. Very embarrassing and not to be repeated.
“Not the pool.” B.J., as he liked to be called for reasons she couldn’t understand, waved his hand. “The natural hot springs. The real springs.”
Intrigued, Ivy agreed. Although she didn’t care to spend five more minutes with Bobby Joe, she did have a burning desire to experience everything Mystic. She knew there was a Mystic River that flowed into a pond via a waterfall.MoreLess
“Let’s go up to the hot springs,” he suggested with a pronounced slur to his words and a wink that caused bile to rise in her throat.
“The pool is closed this time of night,” she pointed out.
Buzzed or not, she was the manager. And she didn’t want to get caught there—again—after ...hours only to be ejected by Jack, the maintenance guy. Very embarrassing and not to be repeated.
“Not the pool.” B.J., as he liked to be called for reasons she couldn’t understand, waved his hand. “The natural hot springs. The real springs.”
Intrigued, Ivy agreed. Although she didn’t care to spend five more minutes with Bobby Joe, she did have a burning desire to experience everything Mystic. She knew there was a Mystic River that flowed into a pond via a waterfall.MoreLess
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