Swept Away by Mariah Stewart

Author:Mariah Stewart
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-11-11T18:18:51+00:00

Chapter 6

"Ah, there you are." Jeremy couldn't help but grin as Jody half stumbled into the lobby at 5:35 the next morning wearing gray shorts and a hooded sweatshirt of the same color.

"Here's part of me, anyway." She covered her mouth to yawn. "The rest of me is still sleeping peacefully back in room three seventeen."

He handed her a tall cardboard cup and said, "You'll be wide awake in a few minutes, I guarantee it."

"Is that coffee?" She sniffed and sighed. At that moment, it smelled like heaven. She could have wept. "Bless you. I need this. You're a prince, Jeremy Noble."

"I am indeed." He took her elbow and guided her through the door and into the parking lot.

"It's still dark out. You know, back at the inn, I'm up every day by at least this hour. But for some reason, I just haven't wanted to get out of bed all week."

"That's 'cause you know you're on vacation and you think you should be sleeping late. But trust me. This will be worth getting up early for." He opened the door to the Maxima and stepped back so that she could slide in.

She could have told him that she'd gladly get up at five any morning, just to look at him. Instead, she asked, "What's this'?'r

"You'll see." He grinned and turned on the ignition.

They drove through quiet streets, those same streets that just the night before had been teeming with life. Jody sipped at her coffee, grateful for his thoughtfulness, and tried to guess what surprise he might have come up with.

She hoped it wasn't deep-sea fishing.

"We're almost there." He glanced over and added, "You might need that hood. It might be a little cool."

"Give me a hint."

"Too late. We're there."

He rounded a deep bend in the road and pulled off to the side, to a clearing where several other cars were parked on a sandy lot lined with a narrow row of scrub pines.

"This way," Jeremy motioned to her, and in the growing light she could see that his eyes were dancing- with mischief or pleasure, she wasn't sure which.

Jody followed him down a path leading through the sparse stretch of trees, her curiosity piqued.

"I know. We're going to watch the sun rise." She caught up with him and tucked her arm through his, still holding her coffee cup in one hand.

"Yes." He grinned, and stopping at the end of the path, he pointed straight ahead. "From a slightly different vantage point."

Jody stopped, drop-jawed, in her tracks, and stared at the brightly colored balloon that rose fifty feet above her head.

"It's a… it's a…" she stuttered and pointed.

"Hot- air balloon," Jeremy grinned, taking her hand. "You said you wished you could see the entire island from up above. Well, this morning you'll get your wish."

"From the air," she whispered, horrified as she stumbled along behind him. "I'm not sure that I really meant that I wanted to see it from the air…"

He laughed and squeezed her hand.

"Alan Dember?" He called to the tall, thin man inside the balloon's basket

"Right.

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