The Virgin And the Vengeful Groom (2000)
“Gazing out over the Atlantic, he continued the word game a fellow patient had introduced him to in a certain Central American hospital.
Applicable words only. Even playing alone he stuck to the rules. He’d started over with the As once he’d settled here at Powers Point. After less than a week he was up to the R words. There was not a lot to do here.
Not a lot he could manage yet, at any rate.
Rest and relaxation.
Recuperation and recreation.
Nah. Scratch recreation, it didn’t apply.
Rebuild, restore…retire? At age thirty-six?
Well, hell—how about rotting, raving, royally pissed-off?
Too much like the Bs. Bored, bad, broken. And bitter. Yeah, that, too, but he was working on that one.
The Ps had come easy. Powers Point. Private. Privateer?
Could his old man have been a pirate? Being the descendent of several generations of seafarers about whom he knew next to nothing, Curt had to wonder. Powers Point was a pretty valuable chunk of real estate, at least, it was now that the island had t...urned into a tourist haven.MoreLess
Applicable words only. Even playing alone he stuck to the rules. He’d started over with the As once he’d settled here at Powers Point. After less than a week he was up to the R words. There was not a lot to do here.
Not a lot he could manage yet, at any rate.
Rest and relaxation.
Recuperation and recreation.
Nah. Scratch recreation, it didn’t apply.
Rebuild, restore…retire? At age thirty-six?
Well, hell—how about rotting, raving, royally pissed-off?
Too much like the Bs. Bored, bad, broken. And bitter. Yeah, that, too, but he was working on that one.
The Ps had come easy. Powers Point. Private. Privateer?
Could his old man have been a pirate? Being the descendent of several generations of seafarers about whom he knew next to nothing, Curt had to wonder. Powers Point was a pretty valuable chunk of real estate, at least, it was now that the island had t...urned into a tourist haven.MoreLess
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