“She’s also your boss. This is her resort.” Penelope reached up and gave his shoulder an encouraging squeeze. “We need to give the lady what she wants.”

“Pen’s right,” Jay agreed. “Mrs. W. wanted to dive right in with the grand opening. So stop fretting and get ready to make a splash.”

Luke shrugged. “I’m just worried the grand opening isn’t going to be very … grand.”

Penelope eyeballed him, another mental Whatever stamped on her face. Luke knew she hated when he got pedantic with word choice.

“This is only the beginning,” his sister, ever the positive one, promised. “Once word gets out about how much fun this place is, the buzz will build and more people will register for the next session, and the next one, and so on.”

“All we’ve got to do is make sure this first group has a really great time,” Vijay added with a wink.

“Especially this first group,” Penelope winked back.

“All right, what’s going on?” Luke demanded.

“Nothing.” His sister blinked up at him, her gray eyes, so like his own, beguilingly innocent.

He’d thought she was acting suspicious before, but now he was sure. “I’m not falling for it, Pen.”

She blew out a breath. “Fine.” Penelope glanced at Vijay. “Tell him.”

“I’m not telling him.” Vijay shook his head. “You tell him.”

“Tell me what?”

They both started guiltily as he stared them down.

Vijay broke first. “A reporter is coming,”

“What, like from a local newspaper?” Luke asked. Why would they be afraid to tell him about that? Publicity was Jay’s job.

“Not exactly,” his friend hedged, gaze shifting to Penelope again.

“Well, then, what exactly?” Luke wondered, his voice taking on an edge. Their evasive behavior was making him uneasy.

Jay clasped his hands together and rocked back on his heels. “It’s just that, I might have encouraged Mrs. W. to agree to have someone from a website come out and review the resort.”

“Okay,” he said slowly, still not seeing how this was worrisome. “What site?”

“TrendList,” Vijay said. “The new ‘Take Me!’ segment.”

“Oh. Wow.” His sister sometimes accused Luke of living in a cave, but even he’d heard of the pop culture giant. In fact, he’d recently read an article analyzing the impact of the website’s new segment on the travel industry. “Oh, wow,” he repeated.

“Don’t freak out.”

Luke turned to his sister. “Why would I freak out?”

“I don’t know. Maybe because, when things aren’t in your control you freak out.”

“It’s fine. A big website with international reach is coming to do a story. No problem. We’ll show them around, answer their questions.” Luke waved his hand dismissively. “Boom. Done.”

Again, Vijay and Penelope exchanged glances.