More than a Mermaid by Sara Summers

Author:Sara Summers [Summers, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-02-02T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

After everyone went back to their rooms, I laid in bed, staring at the ceiling above me. The room was dark and quiet. Sam wasn’t moving or making any noise, so I figured he was asleep already.

I closed my eyes and rolled onto my stomach, trying to find a comfortable position to sleep in. A few minutes went by, and still, I couldn’t sleep.

Turning onto my side, I forced my eyes to stay closed as I stared at the wall.

Just breathe. Just breathe. Just breathe.

I repeated in my mind, trying to level out my breathing and convince my brain that it was time to go to bed.

It was no use. My brain stayed wide awake no matter how hard I tried to get it to believe that it was bed time.

Maybe it was the adrenaline from the video games. My heart hasn’t pounded like that in ages.

I tried to figure it out, then gave up and went back to chanting,

Just breathe. Just breathe. Just breathe.

I rolled to my back and groaned quietly. Maybe it was Sam’s fault, he was laying right beside me, the soulmate that was mine but wasn’t.

A few long minutes later, I smelled salt in the air. I knew it could only come from one thing.

The ocean? What is it doing here in the middle of the night?

I wondered. Sure, the ocean and I typically worked as a team, but in the middle of a hotel room? That was a strange place for me to feel it.

A few more minutes passed by, and I was getting tired of lying in bed awake. If the ocean needed me to do something, I wanted to get it done.

Then again, I knew it was silly for me to try to put the ocean on my timetable. Who was I to tell it how to function? I was just some twenty-year-old girl who was born with a special marking on my side. The ocean had been doing its thing for a lot longer than I had.

So, I waited for it to make its move, focusing on my breathing and laying there patiently. If the ocean wanted me to wait, there was a reason.

Finally, twenty long minutes later, it spoke to me.

“Get up.” The ocean whispered.

I slid out of bed, making as little noise as possible. If Sam woke up and found me listening to the ocean, he would think I was crazy. And since he didn’t want to be a merman, it definitely wasn’t his place to know that mermaid royalty had a close relationship with the ocean. Alena didn’t even know that yet.

I padded over to the door that led out to the hallway, putting my hand on the handle. Pausing for a second, I tried to figure out if there was a way to open the door without waking up Sam.

Yeah… there wasn’t. I would just have to go for it and hope for the best. That didn’t seem like the greatest idea, but what other option did I have?

“Go.

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