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Chapter XXXII – Empire State of Mind – Dive
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Two days before the last scene of Chapter XXXI.
Hawaii, the night after Bette arrives
“Thomas Callahan are you trying to sweep my wife off of her feet?” Tina asked in a mock-scolding voice. Tom smirked and gave her an exaggerated shrug of his broad shoulders.
“Just treating your lady right,” he drawled. “As if she was my wife.”
He plucked a lily-white orchid from the bowl in the middle of the table, kissed it, and then gave it to a chuckling Bette in front of the phone’s camera so that Tina would see him do it. “The orchid has symbolized luxury, beauty, and strength,” he said, “which this night, and you, are all about, dear Bette.”
“Play-a,” Tina growled. “Save those moves for the others, would you?!”
Tom laughed and stood slowly, leaning slightly on the table before straightening up to his full 6 foot 3 inch height. He pulled on his lapels to straighten his jacket out — needlessly, because the jacket was still immaculately smooth.
“Ladies, if you’ll excuse me?” he asked and then bowed slightly before turning around smartly, to head towards the restrooms.
“So that place is really swanky, huh? Would not have imagined something like that in a beach city,” Tina observed after telling Bette about what she had read to Angelica while putting her down to sleep.
Bette’s eyes were still sparkling from her excitement over the meal.
“Not just swanky. You can’t imagine how delicious the food was, T. I think we had about twenty courses, at least … mostly small plates, of course, but each bite was heavenly!” the brunette exclaimed.
“And just look at this place!” she slowly swept her phone around so that Tina could see through the camera what Bette seemed so excited about.
“Is that a wall of Picasso drawings I see?” Tina asked, squinting. The lights in the restaurant, appropriately called a Cave, were very dim, but the wide-open aperture of Bette’s phone camera allowed her to see some of the interior décor as Bette swept the interior scene around her.
“Good eye, honey. Yeah, those are Picassos,” Bette answered. “There’s a lot of other art scattered around, including sculpture. When we were being ushered to our table I spotted an ancient, and certified, marble Madonna from Italy.”
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‘It could turn out to be a fatal mistake’ is the intriguing tempting sentence and then 21 pages later we’re still wondering!
Great Story over it’s many twists and turns and another great chapter. Thank you looking forward to 33.
Indeed still wondering about that sentence.
It is a very good and intriguing story, so many happens and it keeps you captivated to the end.
I like all appreciate the beauty of Brete, I like Tom drooling over Bette, Tina presume I like his love Bette, please keep writing and indulging with your stories, thank you very much!
I bet those fishing shops have nice little pointy knives…the kind you can strap to….well – where ever you can hide one ! The girls have to win ! Mr Green with the lead pipe in the library ! Get that snake off her path !
Love your story and look forward to every twist! I don’t even try to guess where you’re going, but just hang on for the bumpy ride. I’m probably in the minority, but I can’t stomach Tom! He is so inappropriate and disrespectful. A peeping Tom that doesn’t bother to hide in the bushes. At least Ashley called him out on his behavior. Cannot imagine Tina allowing him to be their donor and Bette allowing him to continually ogle her. Don’t imagine Bette would tolerate Miller acting that way towards Tina. Can’t wait for the next chapter.
Hi, am glad you are enjoying the story, and thanks for telling me what you think. Several thoughts in response: 1) the Bette in this storyline is an inveterate flirt, something that Tina has had problems with from the start ( see early chapters in “Let It Happen” and a few chapters in “Love Soul Heaven Hell), yet she believes she’s in control of it… we’ll see; 2) all the same, she is insanely devoted to Tina; 3) and Tina feels the same. But still, there was a point when they were questioning their expectations about the other (in their own ways; in “Let It Happen”). I have to say I once wrote out a couple of chapters that threw into that (crazy) mix an issue, sexual fluidity, that seems highly relevant to people. Or maybe fluidity expressed in various ways — one chapter that was going into “Let It Happen” after they broke up, and another for “Love Soul Heaven Hell” after the chapter on cheating), that explored those issues in an interlocking way. The chapters were interesting, and took the storyline in unexpected directions, but they each didn’t fit into the flow of the books, so I ended up shelving them. I may pick up on them again, because I think the topic is… well, topical!
In the meantime, I hope Tom doesn’t turn you completely off the rest of the story. (Maybe you can give him a break … don’t we all have those male friends who we know we won’t end up dating but like playing with, anyway?) :-) hope you enjoy the rest of the ride.
ok, from the fishing shop Miller gets a box cutter to be detected by Green’s detector which gives him a feeling of being clever. She also gets 2 or 3 large plastic cable ties, makes great restraints, some plastic fishing line that can be wrapped around the neck, easy and a lot of praying! Excellent chapter. Keep going!!!! PLEASE.
I do not like all this charm
Tom play Bette, ok! He and his friend
only he does not bother to hide
Tina how much he deseha his wife.
Changing the subject I like the pace
you put this story, we give many
decorer details about the narrative.
Waiting new chapter.
10 Stars.