Fate Interrupted 3 by Kaitlyn Cross Page A

shift positions on the hard bench. “And no one will ever admit to that. Will they?”
    No one answered
him.
    “Will they?” he
repeated in a louder voice.
    Kat held up a
hand. “Hey, don’t look at me. I didn’t do anything.”
    Sky glanced at
Jon and turned back to Will. She nodded, naked embarrassment blanketing her
face. “I’m sorry, I should’ve never agreed to come. I
feel horrible.” A tear rolled down her red cheek. “My mother would be so hurt
if she found out I was giving blowjobs to complete strangers for money.” Her
sniffling snowballed into a rush of tears. “This isn’t the life I wanted!”
    Dean rolled his
eyes. “Jesus fucking Christ,” he muttered under his breath.
    “It’s not too
late to make a change, Sky,” Will told her, resting
his elbows on his knees, beer can clutched between his hands. “It’s never too
late to make a change in your life.”
    She shook her
head vehemently, her short blond hair bouncing with the motion. “I have a
two-year old daughter and an ex-husband who never even calls let alone pays
child support. I have to take care of that baby girl and waiting tables at Applebee’s isn’t going to get it.”
    “You could go to
college,” Will said . “Get a fresh start.”
    “I tried that,”
Sky said morosely. “It didn’t last long and I can’t turn back now. Not with Layla in the picture.”
    Will opened his
mouth but slowly shut it again, surprised by his own loss of words. A star
streaked above them in a blur before melting back into the now orange sky.
    “Ya plugged up
my damn toilet!”
    They turned to
Captain Taylor as he emerged from below deck. His heated gaze found Jon in a
heartbeat and turned to a boil. “ Yer payin for a plumber when we get back ta shore.”
    Jon frowned.
“Wasn’t me, dude.”
    Sky placed a
hand on Jon’s, drawing his alarmed eyes. “I want you to know that this was the first
time I’ve ever done anything like that.”
    His frown deepened.
    “For money, I
mean.”
    Kat leaned
forward. “She just started last week, but you can’t blame her anyway. She
didn’t hire out this party. You did!”
    Sky smiled, a
fond look softening her gaze. “Who knows, Jon, maybe this was meant to be.” She
squeezed his hand. “You and me, I mean.”
    Jon pulled his
hand back and scooted further away.
    “Here,” she said,
digging in her bikini top and pulling out a hundred dollar bill. “It will make
me feel better.” She extended her hand. “Take it.”
    Jon held up a traffic
cop-like hand. “I can’t take that back.”
    “Yes, you can,”
she said, gesturing with the bill.
    “No thanks.”
    She stared at
him with her mouth hanging open, holding out the money. “Well, how about this?
How about we go out to dinner sometime soon and apply this to the bill?”
    Jon’s eyes
lowered to the money before raising back up to find her sky blue eyes. “I have
a girlfriend.”
    “That’s okay,”
Ben chimed in. “She don’t mind.”
    Sky’s eyebrows
pulled together. “Is she pretty?”
    Something bumped
against the bottom of the boat and Will froze. His eyes bulged from their
sunken sockets. “What was that?”
    “Log,” the
captain said bluntly, playing with the wires under the dash again.
    “Or the
mermaid,” Kat whispered coldly, pulling the blanket up to her chin.
    Will’s eyes nervously
roamed the water around them. “We’re going to need a bigger boat.”
    Dean got up from
his chair and gazed out the back of the boat, desperately trying to control his
tongue. He wanted to punch Shaun in the face and if he gave Shaun the chance to
open his big mouth it might just come to that. He inhaled a deep breath of
clean air and let it back out. “Which way are we drifting?”
    The captain
poked his head up from the dash, curly white hair escaping his crooked hat. “East.”
    “Great,” Dean grumbled,
balling his hands into fists.
    Ben massaged his
scalp, wincing a little in pain.
    “Metal
plate bothering you again?”