MONDAY'S CHILD_Fair of Face by Polly Becks

Author:Polly Becks [Becks, Polly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance action love, cancer fiction, survivor chick lit, adirondack mountains, hea happily ever after
ISBN: 9780990884019
Goodreads: 24732275
Publisher: GMLTJoseph, LLC
Published: 2015-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

The sun had gone down spectacularly, shining off the green and purple mountains, lighting the clouds with spectacular color.

Briony and Erik had excitedly unpacked their cameras and lenses in between sips of Adirondack Ginger Beer, a bottled soft drink he had discovered in Walt’s Malt Shop that had sounded interesting, and tasted even better.

“The Adirondacks are beautiful in every season, at any time of the day,” Briony had said, snapping away from where she sat on the tarp, while Erik took shots from a variety of angles, walking all the way around the tree as he did. “Probably spring is the blandest—they call this season Mud, rather than spring—but the fall is the most gorgeous by far. The natives call the millions of people who show up to see the blazing autumn colors ‘leaf peepers.’ ”

The moon had risen, glorious, as the sky was changing from the fiery colors to the cool blues and greens of night.

After she had packed her camera away, Briony rolled up one side of the tarp into a long, flat pillow, and lay down on it, patting the place next to her.

Erik’s jeans were suddenly too tight again.

Damn, I’m going to have to go shopping tomorrow or risk serious injury, he thought, stretching out beside her.

“This is, arguably, the best part,” she said, staring above her through the arms of the giant dead tree. “There’s nothing like watching the stars beneath Obergrande.”

“Beautiful,” Erik said. He was not talking about anything he was seeing in the sky, but what the radiance of the high moon was doing to the girl beside him.

Her face glowed, luminous in the silver light.

The camera loves her, but light loves her even more, Katherine Bruce had said.

Now he knew what she meant.

He felt her shiver slightly in cold late-April wind that gusted off the lake.

“Here, My Girl, come ’ere,” Erik said. He patted the tarp beside him.

Briony looked down at where his hand rested on the heavy plastic.

After a moment, seeming as if she was making a major decision, she shifted closer to him, then went back to looking at the moon shining down in bright rays against the layers of clouds and into the water of Lake Obergrande.

“Do you think the beams reach them?” she asked quietly.

“Them?”

“The mermaid people.” She glanced back out at the lake before them. “The ones that play on the swings of the underwater playground. Mr. Daniels, and the other school employees who drowned in the flood—all the pets and wildlife that didn’t make it out? The generations of spirits in the sawmills and the furniture factories, MaryBeth’s real parents, visitors no one knew were here, the people camping in the hills that no one even knew were lost? Do you think the water in the depths of the lake is silver like the night air when the moon is this bright and full? Do you think it shines on them, too?”

“I’ve no idea,” Erik said, equally quietly. “I used to wonder the same thing

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