Babycakes

Author:Babycakes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-04-08T23:18:33+00:00

Chapter 13

“Oh, my goodness. Morgan, look how small they are.”

Kit walked around the holding tank for two of the little Hawksbills they were taking back to Sugarberry, a look of delight and wonder on her face. She crouched down to watch them through the glass. “Oh, no, look. That one has only three flippers.”

Morgan came around her side and bent down to watch with her. “Seems to be doing pretty well with them, though.”

“Yeah, he does. Still . . .” She turned her gaze to his. “Lilly is going to totally fall in love with him, you know.”

That was the moment it hit him. Truly, for sure, it hit him. Right next to a turtle holding tank on Jekyll Island.

He’d lost count of the number of times he’d heard the “when the right person comes along, you’ll just know” advice. He’d never really believed it. He’d dated, often, in fact, during his years in Colorado, and could recall, quite fondly, the women he’d spent time with. They’d had lively, deep, stimulating conversations about politics, the environment, world peace, and philosophy. Wasn’t that what connecting and chemistry was all about? He’d always thought something would slowly evolve from there. But . . . it never had.

Not until that moment by the turtle tanks. Staring into green eyes and an open, honest smile, it finally had evolved.

In the short time they’d known each other, he’d opened up to Kit, talked about himself, his family, his goals . . . something he’d never done before. She had, too, and he doubted that was the norm for her, either. Maybe it was the unusual connection they’d had to one another that had allowed it to happen so swiftly; he didn’t know.

He used to think it was about time spent together, that a relationship eventually would grow if given the right amount of attention . . . but this road trip was the longest they’d spent in the company of one another. Over the past two hours—hell, every time they’d had even a brief conversation—it had been meaningful in ways that had nothing to do with deep thoughts about current world events, and everything to do with connecting to each other on an intimate, personal level.

The karmic joke was on him. He finally understood, finally knew . . . and he was the last man on earth she wanted to get involved with.

But that sense of rightness, of connection was there. It wasn’t just him, and it wasn’t going to go away just because she wished it would.

Just be there, involve yourself . . . and see where that takes you, he thought. Worst case . . . she stuck to her friends-only edict and he ended up with someone in his life who was important to him, special, and who cared about Lilly.

Best case? Well, he didn’t want to think that far ahead. One step at a time.

“Morgan?”

He snapped from his reverie . . . and curled his fingers into his palms to keep from cupping her face in his hands and lowering his mouth to hers.

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