Finn by JoAnn Ross

Author:JoAnn Ross
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
Publisher: Castlelough Publishing, LLC
Published: 2016-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

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Tori had headed home from the Caribou Café, intending to get started planning dishes to run by Barbara Ann, but instead, some lyrics began running through her head. Since she’d learned long ago that not listening to her muse, which could be a PMS-irritated bitch if ignored, was a mistake, she picked up her Taylor, retrieved a legal pad from her suitcase, settled down in one of the leather chairs, and began plucking the strings.

Love is not an easy game,

I always lose the final round.

Home has never been a stable place,

It always moves around.

Close, she thought as she wrote the lyrics down. But not quite there. She crossed out the is not and changed it to has never been to better fit the third line. And stable wasn’t quite what she was looking for.

After trying a few more synonyms, she settled on certain. Which was definitely true. There’d been nothing certain about her life since the day her parents had been killed on that narrow Maui road.

Shaking off memories that were painful, even now, she moved on to the second verse.

I have sailed to every distant sea,

I leave love before love can leave me.

It’s so much easier to lose than keep,

These dreams of home.

“Feels,” she murmured, crossing out three words. Sometimes what looked good on paper didn’t quite work when sung. “It feels much easier to lose than keep.”

Better. It was funny, she thought, how her feelings, which she worked so hard to keep locked up tight inside the box that was her heart, would come pouring out in her music. Also, she couldn’t help noting that she hadn’t written a line since agreeing to marry Carter. Somehow, this wild, beautiful place, and, although she hated to admit it, Finn, had unlocked that box, allowing her carefully held emotions to escape.

Carry me home,

Carry me home.

Home hadn’t been a certain place for a very long time. Yet as Finn had flown them over the rivers and mountains, Tori had thought she’d heard a distant click. As if, perhaps, Denali, which she’d read in her tour guide was a sacred place to natives, had somehow struck a chord deep inside her.

She shook off the strange feeling. “This isn’t the time for introspection. You have work to do. Menus to plan.” It had merely been a momentary response to Finn’s kiss, along with those lyrics that had risen from somewhere deep inside her, and the almost mystical mountain whose top was becoming draped in a cape of fluffy clouds.

Putting down the guitar, she turned a page on the pad and got to work.

* * *

The day after having left Tori at the cabin, Finn had just landed in Anchorage and sent his passengers on the way back to their cruise ship when his phone vibrated. Pulling it from the pocket of his jeans, he read the name on the caller screen and braced himself for bad news.

“You’ve changed your mind,” he guessed.

“About what?” Tori asked.

“The parade thing tomorrow.”

“Oh. I haven’t even thought about that.

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