Ocean's Kiss by Lani Wendt Young

Author:Lani Wendt Young [Young, Lani Wendt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal
Publisher: Lani Wendt Young
Published: 2018-08-17T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Several days later and Daniel was hard at work with the welders, when he had a visitor. A beautifully dressed visitor, resplendent in fuchsia. Simone.

“Dahling?!” The trilling call came over the whine of the grinder. “Yoohoo Daniel!”

Daniel paused, raising his face mask so he could smile at his oldest best friend. “What you doing here?” He took off his helmet and gloves, laying them down on the workbench before making his way towards the entrance. “Stay there. I’ll come to you. There’s too much in here you could get hurt on. Lots of steel everywhere…”

Simone waved aside his concerns, but waited at the door anyway, offering her cheek for Daniel’s kiss. “Oh you know I like hard, pointy things. The more dangerous the better!”

Daniel rolled his eyes as he knew Simone expected him to. “Yeah, well trust me, there’s nothing fun about cutting your leg open on a jagged I-beam.”

“Then one of your boys would have have to carry me to safety, wouldn’t they? With me pressed against their naked, sweaty chest as I cling for comfort and reassurance to their rippling muscles,” said Simone lightly.

But Daniel could sense that Simone’s heart wasn’t into their usual banter. Confirmed when Simone gave him an uneasy smile and said, “Is there somewhere we can talk?”

“Sure. My office.”

Once the door closed behind them, Simone wasted no time. “Remember that time Leila jumped into a volcano with that nuclear battery?”

“Yes. Can’t forget something like that.”

“And then she like…died? And you got her body out of the sea?”

Daniel winced. Even now, two years later, the memory hurt. Remembering how close he’d come to losing the woman he loved, the sense of helplessness as he had held her in his arms, the destruction wrought on her charred body. So his reply to Simone was harsh. “Yeah. What about it?”

Simone got up and started pacing the office, wringing their hands and muttering under their breath.

“Simone, what’s going on?” demanded Daniel. “Out with it.”

Simone stopped still. “Sorry. It’s just that it’s weird. Like everything that happens when Leila’s around.” A deep breath. “You said that a woman helped you heal her? Some kind of mermaid siren fish woman?”

“Yes. But you’re the only one who knows that. We agreed we wouldn’t talk about it to anyone, remember?”

Simone waved his cautions away with impatience. “Yeah, yeah I know. This woman, she said she was your mother, right?”

“Not quite. She said she was my mother once-upon-a-time. A long time ago.”

“What does that even mean?”

“I don’t know,” said Daniel. “I gave up trying to make sense of it a long time ago. Why?”

“You need to try and figure it out because I think she may be back,” said Simone.

“What do you mean?” said Daniel. “Where?”

“Checking out your Daddy’s boat.”

“What are you talking about?”

“I spent the morning with Kirei – Ronan’s niece? We’re collaborating on a fashion photo shoot. It’s going to be amazing. I’m having the legend of Apaula and Vaea as my muse for this one, and I’m making a

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