Chase the Moon by Kristen Strassel

Author:Kristen Strassel [Strassel, Kristen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kristen Strassel
Published: 2019-10-05T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

TORI

Maybe this was all a dream, and I was the one who’d wake up at the bottom of the lake and find out I was bound to it until an unsuspecting merman saved me. Abel was kind, patient, and amazing. But his entire life, since this curse, had revolved around me showing up.

What if I couldn’t live up to his expectations?

Then there was the matter of the tiny house. Everything I’d done for the last three years was in preparation of for this trip. Could I give up that dream so easily? Would I really be giving up the dream if I said yes to Abel? Did it have to be one or the other? Abel wasn’t bound to Aurora Falls once he found his mate. We could go anywhere we wanted.

But if I said yes, we were bound to each other forever.

It was so much to consider in so little time. It didn’t help that he was so freaking beautiful. And so freaking amazing.

The sun was starting to slip down the sky when we got back to the lake. Not quite sunset yet, but the light had changed, casting long shadows over the water. The trees were a riot of color, treating us to their own show. I loved this time of year, when nature set itself on fire so it could be reborn.

We were caught in each other’s gaze, lost in our own thoughts, in the cab of his truck. It wasn’t a complaint. Time moved in a funny way when I was with Abel. Stretching out like it didn’t move, and then I felt like it had been stolen from me when I realized how little time we actually had together.

Unless I could commit. Every day wouldn’t be like this, when he cooked breakfast and we spent time doing things we loved. We’d have to go back to real life. The magic would fade.

It always did. That was why I put my house on wheels, because I wanted to chase this feeling.

I’d found it. I just had to let myself actually appreciate it.

“Can I see the inside of your house?” Abel asked, shattering the silence.

“I’d love to show you.” I climbed out of the truck, nervous. People didn’t know how to react to a tiny house. First of all, it was tiny, which meant I had a fraction of the stuff most of my friends thought they couldn’t live without. Secondly, it was on wheels. It was never supposed to grow roots. I convinced myself it threatened people when they saw how little I kept, but it didn’t take the sting away from their comments.

“I didn’t do the best job stabilizing it, since the beach isn’t exactly built for tiny houses.”

Abel nodded, grinning. “That’s why we have the no camping signs...everywhere.”

They really were on every other tree. “After the drive, I was exhausted, and frustrated, and maybe I was supposed to be here. Otherwise, we might not have seen each other after the festival.”

“I’m teasing, Tori.” He stepped into my tiny home, filling so much of its space as he took everything in.

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