Welcome to Serenity

  “What if I don’t want to?”

  “I will not let you die alone in this mausoleum. It is time to start breathing again, Darlene. We are going to get you a husband and get you back to living,” she said.

  In some ways she wanted to cry but her tear ducts had dried out a while ago. “You think it is going to be that simple?”

  “It may be that simple or that difficult. Either way, we are booked in nice hotels in three of the locations and the last one I think we have to stay at his cabin,” Krysten said.

  “A cabin?”

  “Yeah, he is some sort of master fitness hiking Park Ranger and that man is so fine, I saw that pic of him and was straight for a whole 30 seconds! Gurl, I even felt some moisture in my girl cave.” Krysten fanned herself as if she were having a hot flash.

  Darlene began to laugh.

  “That is a beautiful sound. I have missed it,” Krysten told her.

  “Fine. I will go along to get out of the house, but I am not making any promises,” she said.

  “All we need is to start. These four are a great beginning. I am not certain you will like any of them, or you may fall in love with all four of them, but if not, we start over. They paid for the tickets, we paid for the hotels,” she said.

  Darlene’s heart was racing as her eyes looked over at the folder. “Okay. I am braced, let’s see what you got?”

  Krysten was grinning. “I did the background checks and pulled financial histories...I also hired a private investigator to check their real backgrounds...” She said all of this as she brought the folders over to the couch, along with the cheap-o bottle of wine. She waved her hand for Darlene to join her.

  “Wait,” Darlene said. “I need a decent bottle of wine before I can even start to hear you out.”

  “Go on, get your fancy French wine. Let’s see who gets drunk first, me on this vintage bottle of good stuff aged for three weeks that I brought or that prissy pretentious bottle of grape juice you got!”

  “I also need to make us something decent to eat. I cannot digest those slices of grease you brought over as food,” she said to Krys.

  “If it goes in greasy...”

  “I cannot believe you graduated from Harvard, you talk like you went to school in the middle of Country Central,” she said.

  None of it mattered to Krysten. In the past thirty minutes, her friend of 30 years had laughed out loud and smiled twice. Moreover, she was going into the kitchen to cook. That was the first time she had seen either in four years. Pushing her was unfair, but love sometimes required less talk and more action. She was taking action to help her friend move forward.

  In the end, what is important was her friend’s life.

  Continuing Reading Darlene’s story

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  About the Author

  Olivia Gaines is the award winning bestselling author of Thursdays in Savannah. She also writes the best-selling serial The Blakemore Files. Olivia has been called a "queen of romantic comedy" and her romances are praised as "hilarious, touching, and heartwarming. Highly recommended!"

  She lives in Hephzibah, GA with her husband, son and snotty cat, Katness Evermean.

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