Blown Away (A Romantic Comedy) (Three More Wishes Book 1) by Elise Sax

Author:Elise Sax [Sax, Elise]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2016-08-17T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

Cade’s strong hands are like vises on my legs, but even if he were Superman, there’s no way he can save me from falling overboard. I’ve completely lost my balance, tumbling forward, my crotch up and over his head and falling fast out of the basket toward a terrible death.

It’s the ultimate cliché, but my life is flashing before my eyes. I see the whole thing from my premature birth right up until my premature pregnancy. After the replay of the highlights, my mind shifts to the life that I’ve left to live. My unborn baby. I want to call her Beryl…Okay, I can work on the name. And then there’s Cade. I’m going to miss Cade. We would have had a great life together. Sure, he can be aggravating, but a life with him would be a fun kind of aggravating with lots of laughs and adventures. Scratch that. I don’t want any more adventures. In my flash of clarity of consciousness between life and death, I’m sure of one thing: A life with Cade would be a life full of love.

So, this is how it ends. Death by splat. Totally unfair to end my life before it even begins. I feel shorted, ripped off, like the sucker who bets on a sidewalk card trick performer. My card never comes up.

Oh, well. No use dwelling on tragedy. I accept my fate. I’m going to die. My body is going to flatten like I’m the star of a Wile E. Coyote cartoon. The fall is going to break every bone in my body. I don’t have a medical degree, but I bet that’s going to hurt.

I’m over the side of the basket, about to make a perfect impression of a bird, when I toss my acceptance aside and my survival instinct kicks in. My inner bitch rises to the surface, and I decide to fight back.

Finally.

I swing my arms and attempt to defy gravity, but I keep falling. Gravity is a tough bastard. I wish I did more ab exercises in my life. Or at least some ab exercises. Any ab exercises. But no, I have no core strength, and I can’t manage to lift up my torso and save myself.

“Hold on!” Cade shouts.

“Hold on to what? Air?” I shout back. I have nothing to hold on to, but Cade is doing a good job holding on to me. He manages to grab more of my body and begins to pull me from the abyss. It’s hit or miss for a moment, but miracles do happen, and Cade saves me.

Finally safe, we fall in a heap inside the basket with my back wedged up against the cooler. “The knife?” Cade asks after a minute.

“I hope I didn’t kill anyone.”

He sighs and slaps his forehead.

I don’t blame him. It’s totally my fault. We don’t have the knife, no way to rip the balloon, no way to save ourselves.

And it’s all my fault.

“It’s not my fault,” I say. “Totally not my fault.

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