The Lover From an Icy Sea by Alexandra S Sophia

Author:Alexandra S Sophia [Sophia, Alexandra S]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781466487420
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Amazon: 1466487429
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Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2012-06-09T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter 44

The beach was empty, deserted, not a body in motion in either direction, up or down, for as far as Kit could see. He took Daneka’s hand and they strolled, combed the beach for secrets. He wanted to know hers, but neither the waves nor she would give any of them up. They tested the water with their toes; found it chilly; continued walking.

About a half-mile distant from the hotel, they found an old fishing boat, its paint long since sacrificed to age and the elements. Still, it didn’t look abandoned—someone had at least taken enough care to turn it over and store the oars underneath.

“Darling, what do you say? How about a little ride? This isn’t the Boathouse, and we can’t really order up strawberries and champagne. But we can still pretend, can’t we?”

“I don’t know, Daneka. This boat looks to me like a means to someone’s livelihood. For all we know, that someone comes out to fish at this time of day. If he arrives and finds his boat gone, what’s he going to tell his wife?”

“He’s going to tell her it’s gone. And then he’ll probably want to gnash his teeth and beat his children or kick the dog. But she’ll calm him down and tell him it’s probably just been borrowed for a couple of hours by someone—or, more likely, by some ones—from the hotel. Who will no doubt have the courtesy to leave a few thousand lire so she can buy meat. Then he’ll be satisfied, she’ll be ecstatic, and the kids will eat something other than fish for a change.”

She’s got it all figured out, Kit thought. She always does. If there’s an explanation to be had that will justify her desire, she’ll find it. “Okay—just so long as one of us first runs back to the hotel for some money.”

Daneka smiled, reached into her bikini bottom and withdrew a small stack of bills. “Mille lire notes. Never leave home without ‘em.” She looked in both directions and, spotting the thing she wanted, ran and picked it up. She returned to Kit and the boat with an old tin can. “Ecco!” She counted out ten notes and slipped them into the can, which she half-buried in the sand in place of the anchor she’d just pulled out.

Together, the two of them turned the boat over and pushed it out to where the waves were just breaking. Daneka let out a little scream as a wave crashed up against her, soaking her backside and resulting in the chill she’d tried so diligently to avoid, as well as an abundance of gooseflesh on her arms and legs. Kit snickered, gave her back and shoulders a few brisk rubs, then helped her up into the boat where she sat huddled and shivering. He pushed the boat out until the bottom cleared the sand entirely, jumped in and set the oars.

For the next thirty minutes, Kit rowed in silence. Daneka had long since stopped shivering and now lay stretched out before him.

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