Sea Siren by Consuelo Vazquez

Author:Consuelo Vazquez
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mermaids, multicultural romance, latino author

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That Wednesday night was a night off in name only. Miriam, Ceci, Debbie and Kiki had been alternating evenings off from La Sirena for rest and relaxation away from the restaurant. Tonight was Kiki’s turn, and she was spending her free time exactly as she’d spent the last night off—catching up with household chores.

She didn’t mind. Now that she had her own washer and dryer, she’d washed two loads leisurely while catching on her reading. It was so pleasant, lounging out in her little house, folding clean clothes and sipping a cup of coffee in her kitchen. Definitely a lot better than being stuck for a couple of hours at a city Laundromat.

It was so peaceful. The music of Marc Anthony played from her aging stereo system. Kiki sang along with him, having memorized the words of a romantic bolero, amusing herself by mimicking the singer’s same emotional overtone to the song.

Hey, why not? All this feeling has to go somewhere , right? I might as well use it up with singing.

She sighed. Two days had come and gone since she’d taken a sea cruise with her favorite sea captain. She didn’t claim any right to those feelings of frustration after so short a time. To his credit, the man had mentioned maybe taking her out again. Sometime, as in the future. The future didn’t necessarily mean within the same week. He hadn’t made any solid promises or led her on at all. By that same standard, she hadn’t obligated herself to anything more.

Yet what she felt couldn’t be expressed easily. They’d exchanged home phone numbers, so the itch was there to give him a buzz and invite him to share her precious free evening. He was on her mind constantly, almost to the point of obsession.

A sweet obsession, something supernatural and awesome. It brought her both affection and desire. They were two people who hadn’t known each other that long, yet they were like lovers attached by their human spirits. Or at least, that was true as far as she was concerned. It didn’t seem like her feelings were reciprocated.

She laughed at herself, setting a bundle of folded towels on the rack in the bathroom. That was the silly and desperate ardor of teenagers, and she definitely wasn’t a teenager anymore. Her only serious relationship had been with Xavier; that made Tino the only other man in her life who’d ever effected her so powerfully.

With Xavier, it had been different. Their love for each other was born when they were fourteen years old, so it hadn’t really been love at the start. The relationship, through time, grew into love.

Kiki was a girl when he came into her life; she was a woman when she first laid eyes on Tino—a man who, for all intents and purposes, could either take her or leave her, judging by how he kept his distance from her.

There was nothing she could do about it, either. She’d flirted with him, given him more than ample hints of her interest in becoming more to him.

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