Taken by Storm

Author:Maine, Kelli [Maine, Kelli]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction / Erotica, Fiction / Coming Of Age, Fiction / Romance - Erotica, Romance, Fiction / Contemporary Women, Fiction / Romance - Suspense, Fiction / Romance - Contemporary
ISBN: 9781455598991
Publisher: Forever
Published: 2013-05-07T06:00:00+00:00

Seventeen

Rachael had been acting strangely all day. Merrick had called just before they’d gone back to the hotel with his aunt and her perfectly annoying family to have lunch, and Rachael disappeared before they even ate.

Now she was jittery and kept looking up in the sky like she expected someone to drop down out of it at any moment.

The sun was setting, throwing an orange glare into his eyes.

“MJ, come make a wish.” Holly sat on the edge of the fountain holding a penny out to him. “The mermaid grants all wishes. Rachael said so.”

“Did she?” He scooted his chair out from the patio table and sauntered over to the fountain. “Thanks.” She dropped the penny in his hand, and MJ closed his fingers around it, but didn’t know what to wish for.

“You have to blow on it before you throw it in,” Sam said, swirling his hand through the water.

He wished his dad…

He wished Maddie…

He took a deep breath and blew on the penny sitting in his palm. He wished for once in his life he’d find somewhere to belong.

The coin plunked down into the water and sunk to the bottom, and that was when he heard it. The whomp, whomp, whomp of helicopter blades.

Sam and Holly shot to their feet, shielding their eyes with their hands to watch it fly over the hotel. “Is Uncle Merrick back?”

“No,” Rachael said from where she sat at the table with Heidi and Roger. “It’s a friend of mine and MJ’s.” She gave him a pointed look.

No. It couldn’t be.

Still, his stomach tightened in anticipation. Rachael stood and tipped her head toward the shelter beside the tree line where a few golf carts sat. “Why don’t you ride to the landing pad with me?”

His heart lunged forward, but his feet stayed rooted to the patio. Maddie was going to murder him first and ask questions later.

Sam reached out with his foot and pushed the back of MJ’s leg making his knee pop. MJ jolted forward and darted a look back at the two kids who were now laughing like cracked-out monkeys.

Hell, if he stayed here, he’d probably end up getting wrestled into the fountain by his crazy little cousins. “Yeah, I’m coming.”

He followed Rachael across the lawn and slid into the passenger side of the first golf cart. She turned the key and pulled out from under the awning. “What’s going on with you and Maddie?” she asked.

“Nothing.” It might not have been entirely true, but it wasn’t exactly a lie either.

“MJ,” Rachael put a hand on his arm, “Merrick told me you took her engagement ring. Something’s going on.”

“Maddie told him? It’s…” He bounced his knee and tapped his fingertips together. “We used to be together, okay? Now we’re not. That’s it.”

She put her hand back on the wheel to navigate a curve in the path. “So, you’re not a believer in second chances?”

He bobbed his knee up and down. “It’s not about chances anymore.”

“You took her ring for a reason. You want her to come to you.

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