Night, Sea, And Stars by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham [Graham, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Plane Crash, Stranded, Island/Beach, Fashion Industry
Published: 1984-01-30T18:24:31+00:00

It was incredibly rough going. Even with his crudely created tools, Kyle was having difficulty with the raft. It was different than benches and chairs he had created for their use; the raft had to be secure, had to be completely and painstakingly safe.

Neither of them minded the time. If it weren’t that she spent strange moments, assailed by chills, looking over her shoulder although she knew danger couldn't actually sneak upon them, Skye would have been happy. Happier than she had ever been in her life.

Kyle had warned her of the danger of the fire at night, and she had nodded agreement that it no longer burn. She had feared the nightmares, but the nightmares no longer came. She slept, knowing that he held her.

She frowned. That had been five nights ago… hadn’t it? She wasn’t really sure, time had lost all meaning. Days had passed, weeks had passed. She closed her eyes, her features tense as she tried to concentrate. “Six weeks,” she said aloud suddenly. “We’ve been here a full six weeks as of today.”

Kyle paused in his efforts to hack through a tree limb. His shoulders were bathed in perspiration; he ran the back of his forearm over his brow and watched her. He looked at the pseudo-hatchet in his clenched hand and then dropped it with a casual sigh, rubbing the growth of his beard as he sat beside Skye. “Six weeks, huh?”

Skye nodded. Her hands also became still on the vines she had soaked, stretched, and soaked again, and now braided for strength. She glanced at Kyle’s profile, at the way he looked out at the sea from the ridged height of the plateau where they worked.

“It bothers you, doesn’t it?” she asked.

He shrugged, his arm coming comfortably around her although his gaze remained on the sea.

Of course it bothers him, Skye thought blankly. That was normal. Why wasn’t it bothering her? There should have been something…

And then she again began to wonder why it was she could sell her very soul for Kyle and she wasn’t even missing Ted. Skye closed her eyes, forcing herself to think, to search for a past that could fill her heart with a normal remorse.

Everything had always been so easy, so good. She had met him at the opening of a play and immediately been intrigued by his quiet charm, impressed by his natural manner. He was not her picture of the stereotypical producer. He had not come on to her, but flowers had arrived at her apartment the next day. And then he had called for dinner.

A picture of Ted finally filled her vision, and stayed—warm, deep eyes, tawny hair, quietly but impeccably dressed as he stood at her door that first night.

She had been a fledgling in business then, and he had advised and encouraged. He saw her steadily, but never remarked upon the months when she would leave and spend time in Sydney. Why hadn’t she ever pushed him to come? she wondered. Everything should have been there.

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