SUMMER ROMANCE SERIAL

Sometimes, things just happen exactly as they’re meant to…

Rocky Road to Love — Chapter 5— In which things are starting to head in the right direction…

Heather Kinnane
Heather Kinnane’s Steamy Stories
7 min readFeb 6, 2024

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6 icecream cones with alternating strawberry and vanilla icecream, below alternating slived strawberries, and small white flowers
Photo by Kenta Kikuchi on Unsplash

Hello! Welcome to Chapter 5 of Rocky Road to Love. If you’ve just stumbled across this story, you might like to start with Chapter 1, or check out the other chapters here to find where you’re up to…

Madeline’s first day in the ice-cream van flew by in a rush of people.

It was nice inside the van, which was located under a group of palm trees that offered a little shade and a great view of the beach, further down the hill.

Hope helped Madeline ease into her role, having cones at the ready when people ordered during the slow morning, which gave Madeline a little more time to figure out the location of all the strange flavours.

She made only one mess, when in her nerves she let go of a six-scoop ice-cream before the customer had a proper grip, and it splattered all over their shirt and onto the ground.

“So sorry about that,” Madeliene spluttered. She made them another as Hope returned their money, and promised the resort’s laundromat could take care of any stains on their clothes.

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