Thirteen Days By Sunset Beach (2015)
“"We needn't have got up quite so soon." While Tim and Jonquil looked as if they might have answered this not just with dull-eyed blinks behind their sunglasses, it was Sandra who said "Not your fault. It's our transport that's late." "Relax, you two," Doug said. "That's Greece." "Perhaps we could have been warned about it," Julian said without quite identifying the culprit.
"The sooner I'm up seeing everyone," Sandra said, "the better I like it." Her children and their partners produced a variety of smiles before they looked away, out of the courtyard. Beneath clouds growing pale with dawn, streetlamps cast shadows like emblems of the stillness of the road. Ray glimpsed movement at the near end of the alley leading to the beach, presumably the shadow of the spider that had the light for its lure—the retreating shape had been thin enough. He remembered last night, and was trying to make more sense of it than he had so far when William said "Please may I go on the swings while we're wai...ting?" "If anyone would care to go with you I should think you may." "I'll take you, William," Natalie said.MoreLess
"The sooner I'm up seeing everyone," Sandra said, "the better I like it." Her children and their partners produced a variety of smiles before they looked away, out of the courtyard. Beneath clouds growing pale with dawn, streetlamps cast shadows like emblems of the stillness of the road. Ray glimpsed movement at the near end of the alley leading to the beach, presumably the shadow of the spider that had the light for its lure—the retreating shape had been thin enough. He remembered last night, and was trying to make more sense of it than he had so far when William said "Please may I go on the swings while we're wai...ting?" "If anyone would care to go with you I should think you may." "I'll take you, William," Natalie said.MoreLess
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