CHAPTER 38
Manuel insists on visiting, regardless of her injuries. Lary finally gives in.
Roger is pouring her champagne while she stretches out on the chaise lounge on the screened-in front porch of his so-called “log cabin” along the shores of Lake Muskoka. No pioneer has ever roughed it in a summer home so complete with satellite television, three bedrooms with ensuite bathrooms, a guest cabin, a sauna, and a hot tub. And let’s not overlook the sleek stone fireplace imported from Sweden.
Becks scratches at her cast in the chaise beside Lary. Outside, Brit splashes in the lake, chatting to their neighbor, Sheila, who is floating on an inner tube with a gin and tonic. The sun is fading over the pine-wooded shoreline across the bay. The air is still and moist from a blast of late July s
