Beyond the Reef by A.J. Llewellyn

Author:A.J. Llewellyn [Llewellyn, A.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Erotic Romance Fiction
Publisher: Totally Bound Publishing
Published: 2013-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

“We won’t forget this night in a hurry,” Frank chuckled, tightening his hold on me. We talked in whispers since we were lying on a porch swing on the lanai at the back of our cabin. Up until now, it had rained too relentlessly to make use of the great outdoors. We’d hardly had a chance to explore and now, though it was chilly, the clouds covering the sky like an old winter coat, I was toasty warm. I settled in deeper on my gorgeous man’s chest, loving the way I was wrapped in Frank’s legs and arms under the duvet from our bed.

The swing rocked back and forth in a slow, rhythmic pattern as Frank told me the story of Lai’eikawai, Goddess of the Rainbows. I’d read the Varez book, a simplified version of the massive tome written down by S.N. Hale’ole, to whom the story told in oral form by various kupuna, elders, in 1860. Until the early 1800s, there had been no written form of the Hawaiian language. All that had changed with the arrival of the first Christian missionaries, but Hale’ole wrote the story in Hawaiian.

In 1917, Martha Beckwith translated the Rainbow Goddess’s story from the Hawaiian language and The Hawaiian Romance of La’ieikawai was born. Her enormous book contained the Hawaiian language version on the left side of each page, the English version on the right. I’d managed to find a copy on e-Bay for a ridiculously high sum of money and was dismayed when it arrived, beautifully packaged, to find it amazingly dense and difficult to read.

It read like poetry, but I couldn’t follow the story. I’d found the short, heavily illustrated Varez version at a Hawaiian festival on the mainland a few weeks before I flew to Hawaii and was excited to finally understand the story’s meaning.

“Some people compare her to the Celtic legend of the Lady of the Lake,” Frank mused.

“Lai’eikawai’s story is a sad one. I mean, first her father doesn’t want her because she’s a girl and then when her mother hides her and her twin sister, they are separated for fear of harm coming to them. She’s raised in secrecy and used and abused—by not one man but two—then finally finds her husband, Ka’onohiokala, the eyeball of the sun, who cheats on her with her own twin!”

We were silent for a moment. “Her husband was stripped of his heavenly privileges, right?” I asked. “After his deception was discovered?”

“Right. He was banished to Earth to live as a lapu, a ghost.”

I shivered. Lapu. The word that had kept scrolling across my laptop screen the first day I arrived. In addition to being rendered a lapu, I remembered reading that Ka’onohiokala had been sentenced to a lifetime of dining on moths.

“Are you cold, sweetheart?” Frank’s embrace got a little friskier and I forgot all about ghosts and broken hearts. I concentrated on rainbows and a growing shaft of goodness between Frank’s thighs. “You sure you want to make love out here?” His voice grew husky.

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