Chapter 10: Paradise
It was now 2:00 P.M., and Sam had an hour to get to the hotel, just enough time to meet Valerie at the scheduled hour of three. She was determined to put all of the preceding events of the day behind her: the accident, the search for a rental car, the conversations with various police officers. She had done the best she could to handle a very weird situation, and she had handled it, with Barry’s help. And now she was on the way to see this woman she found so totally irresistible. In Sam’s mind, nothing else mattered.
Sam arrived at the hotel and checked in, letting the desk clerk know she was expecting “a friend.” But she didn’t actually need the desk to inform her of Valerie’s arrival, as she spent the next two hours staring expectantly out the window of the room an
