�We possess the Soave, miss. Would you like it here or at one of many tables?� - Romance short story series
Glia Lucca smoothed her linen skirt and took an in-depth breath. �I believe that couch looks lovely. Thanks.�
Glia loved the Rooftop on the Revere Hotel. She loved relaxing, and quite often swimming inside the glassed-in pool. The area reminded her of South Beach, as she thought it was meant to.
�May I order the young lady�s wine?� She looked out from the corner of her eye to see a well-built man, mid-thirties like Glia. He'd a ready smile and good hygiene. He seemed to be nicely dressed in chinos plus a pressed shirt, however, not overly done. Let's begin, she thought - and I barely sat down.
Jake Timulty assessed the girl inside the linen suit and silk shirt with interest. Nice-looking, however, not overly done, he thought. Maybe her appeal may be the business set that frequented the Revere. She sure isn�t cheap, he mused as he paid the fifteen dollar tab on her drop of vino, and accepted their own micro-draught in the server.
�Thank you,� she moved over around the couch but did not indicate that she wanted him anywhere in her space. �Glia Lucca,� she offered her hand. Her handshake was really firm, he thought. Nice. �Jake Timulty.�
Mentally assessing him for geographical area and deciding upon Southie Irish Boston, she thought he or she must become successful if he was frequenting bars such as the Rooftop and drinking microbrews.
She doesn�t sound Boston, he thought, but recognized a faint Italian accent.
The getting-to-know-you lasts with information gathering for a while, with skepticism and humor�until he flips open his shield, thinking she�s an escort, and she or he laughs in the face - a journalist over a pick-up assignment from her newspaper! The odd couple they are, even though they met with humor - she grew up in Little Italy in Ny and graduated cum laude from Harvard journalism. He, a Boston Southie, with a degree in Criminology from John Jay in The big apple! She a Yankee fan - he a born and bred Red Sox supporter. - Romance short story series
There is a good-bye, nice to fulfill you, followed nearly immediately by alerts on every of their phones. They meet again in the scene - a presumed explosion. Day to night, they find themselves in her hotel.
A modern-day Nick and Nora, they solve the crime, just fall in love and live to see another plot!