Chasing Sunset by Sami Lee

Author:Sami Lee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2008-12-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

The afternoon was bright with sunlight, and Sidney squinted behind her sunglasses as it glanced off the alabaster hull of Brody’s yacht. While Drew climbed on board and called down into the cabin for Brody, her eyes followed the thin blue line that encircled the hull, coming to rest on its name scrawled in dark lettering near the stern: Sunset.

Sidney had once asked Brody why he’d chosen that particular name. He’d smirked in that caustic way of his and told her it was because the one thing you could count on with him was that he’d eventually sail into it. Some people spent their lives watching for the next sunrise, waiting with hopeful thoughts for the new day. Brody spent his chasing the sunset.

Darkness and shadow, that was Brody.

What was she doing here?

“Hey, Brody says he’s taking her out to Craggy Point. Feel like tagging along?”

Sidney glanced up to see Drew waiting for her answer. Brody was beside him, his head and shoulders protruding out of the lower cabin. He was wearing a black T-shirt and an even blacker expression. “Weather report says there could be a storm later.”

The last thing he wanted was for her to climb aboard his boat. His attempt to dissuade her from coming sparked a contrary sense of rebellion in her. She smiled, holding Brody’s gaze. “Sure. I’d love to come.”

Drew helped her aboard while Brody moved into the cockpit. Soon she was helping Drew release the dock lines and they were motoring out of the marina.

Once they were on the open water, Sidney sat with her bare feet dangling over the side of the boat, resting her arms on the bulkhead while Drew and Brody hoisted sail. The wind whipped through her hair, slapping it against her face as the yacht ripped open the surface of the bay like a knife parting crushed silk. The wake behind the boat violently churned the deep blue to a frenzied white. Inside, Sidney felt like that water. A turbulent mess.

The last two days had been intense. Ever since the night of their conversation and subsequent frenzied lovemaking at the lookout, Drew had barely let her out of his sight. He made love to her twice more that night, and once again, slumberous, in the morning. And last night the restaurant had been slow, and he’d closed early to take her home and draw her a bath. He’d stayed in the bathroom with her, watching while she undressed and sank beneath the bubbles, following her movements with his eyes as she soaped herself. It had been as unnerving as it had been erotic. Afterward, their lovemaking had been profoundly passionate, fraught with an underlying tension Sidney didn’t understand.

She guessed it had something to do with today. With what she’d told Drew she wanted. Now, she wasn’t so sure this wasn’t a giant mistake.

They sailed until they veered into a small inlet. A white fingernail of beach skirted the bottom of the granite cliff face known as Craggy Point.

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