Depths of Salvation (Love on the Edge) by Lee Molly E

Author:Lee,Molly E. [Lee,Molly E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Depths of Salvation
Publisher: Molly Lee
Published: 2016-09-23T21:00:00+00:00

Sadie

CONNELL MOVED EFFORTLESSLY through the water a few feet ahead of me, his muscles adapting to the pressure of our depth with expert motions. He made it look graceful, like slow dancing, and my heart swelled another fraction while watching him.

He’d taken us the opposite direction of my site, to a coral reef I had yet to explore. We desperately needed a nonwork setting, because I was in knots after Connell’s outburst topside. When he’d first accused me of using him for my site, I was pissed enough to slap him. Once I took a breath and wiggled my way into his closed-off shoes, I saw things differently. How could he not think that was why I slept with him?

Everything had happened between us so fast, like a match touching gasoline, and we were powerless to stop the blaze. It didn’t make sense on paper, but where the flames licked the center of my chest? That made all the sense in the world. I just hoped he believed me, and that he’d let me in enough before he burned us both.

I gasped, giddier than the bubbles bursting around me once I set eyes on a super-pod of spinner dolphins ahead of us.

“Check it out,” Connell said, glancing over his shoulder and slowing his speed by waving his arms back and forth in the water.

“How many are there?” I asked, trying to count each beautiful silver creature. They were so playful, darting over, under, and in between each other.

“At least twenty.” He reached for my hand. “Let’s get closer.”

I took his hand and let him propel us forward. A school of tiny, iridescent fish swam above the dolphins, their movements calm and relaxed even as we approached. The dolphins plunged lower as if racing to the sea floor, before darting back up and jumping out of the surface midspin.

Connell stopped us right in the middle of the pod, and we instantly became a part of their games. Several took to circling us in easy, lazy movements, while others leaped over our heads or flicked their tales near our faces. I couldn’t contain my grin and Connell couldn’t either, which shocked the hell out of me.

I’d never seen him smile like this before—so free and open and without any chains. I moved as close to him as possible, using my flippers to steady myself before his face, laughing as a dolphin came up and pushed his back with its long nose.

He grinned, staying steady in his position despite the creature’s attempts to throw him off balance.

“Old friend?” I asked.

He nodded. “Oh yeah, me and these guys go way back.”

“You know, I can’t tell if you’re joking or not.”

“Really?”

“Really,” I said. “It would make sense for you to have friends under the water. You spend so much time down here.”

“Like you don’t.”

“True,” I said, reaching out and grabbing his hand. “But our reasons behind it are different, I think.”

“How so?” he asked, not a hint of deflection in his tone.

Hope bloomed in my chest.

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