A Risk Worth Taking by Zana Bell

Author:Zana Bell [Bell, Zana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

CRESSA HAD MADE her promise in good faith. Now that she understood him, there was really nothing left to explore. A relationship might have been fun, but hey, there were always new and interesting guys, fresh adventures.

She soon discovered, however, that the day’s sailing had shaken her philosophy of life, exacerbating her restlessness and causing her to rethink her values. Snatches of conversations reverberated in her head: “…being free and being lost can sometimes look the same.” “…under your wild-child act is a strong woman wanting to get out.” “…go live out your own fantasies.”

Adam was pursuing his dream with a single-mindedness she couldn’t help admiring. It was one thing to let fate fill her sails, but perhaps it was time to take the tiller.

Trawling the internet took some time, but the search came up gold. She sat back in her chair and stared at the screen in disbelief. There it was, the dream job. Crew wanted for a tall ship used for chartering. Fate seemed to be handing it to her on a platter. There remained, of course, the small problem of applications from around the world; they would be flying in. The job was a long shot. The longest shot. But what if she got it? Just imagining Adam’s expression when she told him brought a smile to her lips as she opened her résumé file.

Adam. She was thinking of him again. Despite all her efforts not to, she’d given him quite a lot of thought. Now that her initial shock had worn off, she could see that his desire to be a doctor made sense. He had the focus and precision necessary for operations, and kept a cool head under pressure. He already worked life-and-death situations and he was certainly bossy enough to be a surgeon. And what better goal than to fix people?

At least he’d finally been honest. She knew where she stood and that was great. Everything was out in the open, rules clearly defined. Life could go on as it had before Adam roared into her life. So this agitation that she woke up with was inexplicable, as was the disturbed night she’d spent. She was usually such a good sleeper.

Monday she was due on the set, so she dropped from the top bunk as she did every morning and ambled down the dark hallway to the kitchen, where she put on the kettle. Usually she did her stretches while waiting for it to boil, but this morning she paced restlessly to the living room, where she leaned a shoulder on the French door, looking out.

The harbor waters were motionless, a dark pewter under a sky freckled with stars, although dawn was not far off. Matariki—the Seven Sisters—stood out bright and bold. It had been there every morning, but normally she was too keen to get on with the day to stop and look. The stillness had an almost breathless quality to it, the beauty an aching loneliness that tugged at her. A memory of the dolphin flashed.

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