Biting the Bride by Clare Willis

Author:Clare Willis [Willis, Clare]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Zebra Books
Published: 2010-11-30T16:00:00+00:00

The power stayed with her as she swam, rendering the cold and five-foot swells hardly noticeable. Instead she noted the crystalline shine of moonlight on the water, and the way the lights of the city winked like flickering fireflies. She noticed a rhythmic pattern to what looked like flashes of light on the water’s surface, but after watching for several seconds she realized that it was the pod of dolphins, swimming about a hundred yards away. She swam closer to them, close enough to feel the surge in the water as their powerful bodies raced forward in unison. She was swimming next to a mother and a calf. As she looked into their round, shiny black eyes, the upward curve on the dolphin snout had never seemed more like a smile.

The little one leaped out of the water. His tail flipped up as he met the air, an exuberant gesture that seemed to say, “You try it, too!”

So Sunni did. She lifted her chest and arms as if she was going to do the butterfly stroke, and her body was airborne, the curve of her back matching the position of her little dolphin friend. She kicked her feet just before she sliced back into the water. The mother dolphin chirped her approval. For a moment Sunni contemplated giving up the human world and just staying with these peaceful, intelligent beings, but she knew her strength wouldn’t last forever. She could already feel a burning pain in her arms and legs that said her swimming time was almost over. Reluctantly, she turned toward land.

She could see Jacob standing on the beach. With her telescoping eyesight she could even see the anxious look on his face as he scanned the bay. She was standing in neck-high water before he noticed her. Her heart leapt to see his anxiety change to happiness, but then she realized that this change of expression meant that he hadn’t been entirely sure that she would survive. Come to think of it, she hadn’t been so sure herself when she was hurtling toward the water at a hundred miles an hour.

He stayed well back on the beach, watching her as she came toward him. He had a blanket in his hands, which he threw over her shoulders.

“Where’d you get the blanket?” she asked.

“I broke into someone’s car,” he said.

“Are we allowed to do that?” She rubbed her hair with the blanket.

He laughed. “You mean is it against our laws? ”

“I don’t know what I meant. I don’t know what I meant by ‘we,’ for that matter.”

He scooped her up, blanket and all, tucked her into his arms and ran. He glided as if on invisible skis across the beach and the road that led to the bridge. When he reached the forested hill on the other side he took it in leaps like a deer or a mountain goat, bounding in a zigzagging pattern around the trees and boulders. She had been feeling quite smug about her accomplishments,

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