“Alana is. Sergio is out with friends. I don’t expect either of them back ‘til later. So, all the fish is ours!”

She laughed. “How can I help?”

“Everything’s done. I just need to throw the fish and veggies on the grill. Rice and salad are already made. We can sit outside and relax until it’s ready.”

“Works for me.” She went inside and put the beer in the refrigerator and poured one into a glass for Marco. She also opened the wine and poured a glass for herself and brought both drinks outside. Marco was just sliding two aluminum foil packets onto the grill. When he closed the cover, she handed him his beer.

They sat at the round table on his patio and chatted for a bit. She told him about her day. It was his day off and it had been a comical day at the concierge desk.

“I think there might be a full moon. I don’t remember the last time I had so many odd requests in one day. The first one was actually kind of romantic. The groom of a honeymoon couple called and wanted us to scatter pink Nantucket rose petals all over the bed. Then the wife of an older couple that was coming to celebrate his 80th birthday asked us to get several boxes of those chocolate covered cranberries from Sweet Inspirations and leave them in the room with a bottle of champagne.”

“That sounds like a good combo, actually,” Marco said.

She laughed. “I thought so, too. But the funniest request of all was from Mrs. Davis. She’s arriving tomorrow and asked us to get a baby blue doggie sweatshirt that says Nantucket on it for her newest addition to the family.”

“She got another dog? Or did something happen to Pepper?”

Mrs. David was one of their favorite guests. She came every summer for a month, rented one of their biggest suites, had people in and out visiting every weekend and she always brought her gorgeous Pomeranian, Pepper.

“Pepper’s fine. She said thought Pepper might be lonely and needed a sibling, so she recently acquired Daisy.”

Marco chuckled. “I’m glad Pepper is okay. That sounds like quite the day.”

“It was. I had one of the front desk girls cover the concierge desk so I could run into town and get everything. It was a fun day, actually.”

“Never a dull moment at the concierge desk,” Marco said.

It was the perfect opening for Andrea to mention her New York offer. She wanted to talk to Marco about it and not just spring it on him if she did decide to accept. But it was hard for her to bring it up, too. If she decided to take the offer, it was going to be even harder to leave, and she knew she’d miss Marco, too.