Mermaid Dreams by Rinelle Grey

Author:Rinelle Grey [Grey, Rinelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-26T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Rowan lay in the bunk, staring at the light through the portholes. Cari wasn’t awake yet. At least he couldn’t hear her moving around. She must be tired. Yesterday had been a big day. Or maybe mermaids never woke up early? Somehow he couldn’t imagine that.

Rowan felt a smile on his face at the thought. Not the thought of mermaids, which was reason enough by itself to smile, but the thought of Cari.

He couldn’t believe she’d kissed him like that yesterday, and he paused to savour the moment. It meant a lot to him that her feelings were strong enough that she’d done so, and he hoped he hadn’t upset her by pulling back.

It wasn’t that he wasn’t interested. He just couldn’t bear to be the reason she never made it home. He could see how much she wanted to, and he didn’t want her to have to choose. He knew he couldn’t, and he refused to put her in that position, no matter how strong his feelings were towards her.

Then there was the fact that mermaids were banned from coming up to the surface, let alone mating a human. That meant if she mated with him, then she couldn’t return home, even if they did manage to find a way to get her tail back.

He needed to keep his distance, no matter how hard it was. He wouldn’t be the cause of her being excluded from her home. Cari deserved better than that.

She was unlike anyone he’d ever met. Strangely innocent and yet worldly at the same time. Her reaction to everything, the bed, walking, even his phone, was so fascinating. And yet, every now and then, he saw age and wisdom in her eyes.

In some ways it reminded him of his stepfather, Calrian, when he’d first come to live with them.

She was coping remarkably well with being away from everything she’d ever known, and even better with the fact that she didn’t know how to get back. He wasn’t sure he’d be so calm if he thought he’d never see his family again.

That thought gave him a renewed determination to help her get home, despite the fact that it would mean he’d have to say goodbye to her. He reached out to the shelf nearby, picked up his phone, and began to read through every legend on mermaids he could find.

And there were a surprising number. Nearly every culture on earth had some sort of story about people from under the sea. It was fascinating really. A little like dragons. With the knowledge of the existence of real mermaids, Rowan could see how the legends had evolved.

There were many similarities among them. Rowan grinned wryly at the number of stories of humans being lured to their deaths. He’d nearly joined their numbers. He might have, if Cari hadn’t saved him.

Though he could find plenty of reality in the stories, they were nearly always about the human experience of an encounter with mermaids, never about the mermaid’s experience.

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