Mackinac Sunsets (Secrets of Mackinac Island Book 6) by Katie Winters

Author:Katie Winters [Winters, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: sisters fiction, family fiction, clean and wholesome romance
Publisher: Katie Winters
Published: 2020-10-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

It was a funny thing, waking up to the hazy light of a gorgeous October California morning. Elise turned fluidly beneath those thousand-count sheets and huddled up against the broad naked, hairy chest of one Wayne Tanton, Midwestern-man and stranger to the California shore. Although he was still somewhere between sleep and not, he placed his lips against her forehead and murmured, “Good morning.”

Elise’s heart swelled three times its normal size.

The previous night, she had stayed up till well past midnight with Brad. She’d poured them hearty glasses of merlot and watched as his face changed, wrinkled up, grew rosy and strange as she explained to him the dramatic tale of his grandmother, his grandmother’s lost love, the life they might have had.

“So, you found your real father?” Bradley had breathed, perplexed. “And that’s where you’ve been all this time?”

Elise’s eyes prickled. “I’ve wanted to tell you this whole time. But now, if you’re up for it, you can come with me. You can meet your cousins, your aunts and your uncle and your grandfather. You can see this island where Grandma’s life changed forever.”

Brad had contemplated this for what seemed like forever before he said, “Your life changed there, too, didn’t it? I mean, you brought a guy home. That’s huge.”

Now, as Wayne slowly eased out of his sleep, he grinned groggily at Elise and said, “How did the talk with Brad go?”

“I think he needs a little bit of time to come to terms with it,” Elise said. “But overall? It went okay. Better than okay. He seemed to get that I needed a change. He said if there’s anything he’s learned recently as he’d gotten older, it’s that we’re constantly evolving. I’ve never heard my kid say anything that grown-up before.”

“It’s crazy how it happens just like that,” Wayne said.

They drove up to Berkley that morning, a glorious drive on the coastline that took a good seven hours. Wayne, Elise, and Brad alternated driving rounds in Elise’s BMW. As she clutched the steering wheel, she was reminded of all the long-lost hours she’d spent driving, stuck in traffic, commuting from one writing room to the next, or from Bradley’s soccer games to Penny’s piano rehearsals. On and on, back and forth, until she’d grown tired, weak.

“What are you going to do with the car, Mom?” Brad asked from the back seat. “You said Mackinac Island doesn’t have any cars on it, right?”

“That’s right,” Elise said. “If I spend part of the time out in California, I guess I could keep it around or in storage. But that also seems like a waste.”

Brad’s ears perked up. “You know, I could watch over it for a while.”

“What about your little red car?”

“Come on, Mom. You saw it. It’s on its last legs.”

Elise chuckled. “I’ll think about it. No promises.”

Elise thought back to when she and Sean had first dropped Penny off at Berkley; at the time, Elise had sobbed against Sean’s chest. Her shoulders had jumped around and

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