Holiday Of A Lifetime
Part 1 - Seahouses Bay
- Cover
- 1 - Dysfunctionality
- 2 - Rude Awakening
- 3 - Financial Wrongs
- 4 - Ticket to Where?
- 5 - Smooching with Woo-Who?
- 6 - Passports Please
- 7 - New Arrivals
- 8 - Xavier
Part 2 - Isla del Granita
- 9 - Work It, Own It
- 10 - Strange Stirrings
- 11 - Retail Therapy
- 12 - Dinner for One
- 13 - Xavier
- 14 - Skinny Dipping
- 15 - Xavier
- 16 - Culture and Cuisine
- 17 - Xavier
- 18 - Biscotti Bliss
- 19 - Xavier
- 20 - Morning Sickness
- 21 - Smugglers' Bay
- 22 - Xavier
- 23 - It's Not the Fall ...
- 24 - Xavier
- 25 - Not That Kind of Girl
- 26 - Xavier
- 27 - Smugglers' Cove
- 28 - That Kind of Girl
- 29 - Demons
- 30 - Storm Clouds
Part 3 - Westhouses
Part 4 - Seahouses Reprise
- 33 - Home at Last
- 34 - Breakfast Plans
- 35 - Outstanding Bills
- 36 - Planning an Invasion
- 37 - Financial Rights
- 38 - New Beginnings
- 39 - Mile High
- 40 - Epilogue
Bonus - Melissa's Tale
15 - Xavier
The young waitress approached with Xavier's second coffee.

She'd been an annoying brat of a child when Xavier had first discovered her mother's café. He'd seen her grow into a sulky teen and then mature into a young woman, over years he'd lost count of. He wondered if she'd be joining her mother's other business venture. She placed the coffee before him and he held out a few coins. Her hands closed around his - she was leant over the table in a pose that immediately undid her mother's earlier work. She held his gaze, smiled and seductively licked her lips.
"Would Sir desire anything else?"

Xavier knew what Annie would be doing this morning. His coffee went cold on the table.
Starting his third coffee,

Xavier flipped open his laptop and connected to the dark-web server. CCTV images flicked onto the screen. He flipped between the feeds - living room, master bedroom, dressing room, en-suite bathroom, kitchenette, terrace, the two other bedrooms and en-suite showers, bathroom and finally the entrance hall. "Where are you, bitch?", he muttered.
He flipped back to the master bedroom feed,

the bed was made up, but the maid could have already been. He should have done this an hour ago. He glanced up at the young waitress behind the till, no this was only his mistake, he wouldn't blame her. She smiled back, he needed a cold shower.
He put the feed into rewind and watched the room backwards. The maid left, walked crazily around the room backwards and then entered - she never touched the bed. He flipped to the hallway feed, skipped it back to yesterday afternoon and played it at full speed forwards. No one entered the suite. "Where the f*** are you?", he spat out under his breath.
He accessed another dark-web server and logged onto the hotel's reservation system. He found her in one of the beach chalets. "Damn", he cursed out loud, shocking an elderly gent at the next table.

"What the f*** are you doing?" He slammed the laptop shut, the chalets were newly opened this season and he had no cameras in them.
As he left the cafe, from opposite ends of the counter, both mother and daughter smiled at him.
