The Mafia's Secret (A Secret Billionaire Romance Book 3) by Kimberley Montpetit

Author:Kimberley Montpetit [Montpetit, Kimberley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Spellbound Books
Published: 2017-09-03T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

After gulping down a ham sandwich and a bag of chips, they tied off the canoe around a rock jutting up out of the water at the cliff line. The sea level was only a few feet deep now. Anna jumped from wet rock to wet rock, Chad following until they reached a sandy inlet where they could walk without getting drenched up to their thighs.

“This is one of my favorite places,” she said, anticipation rising in her chest. “My Dad used to bring me here. Until I started Junior High and homework and friends and soccer got in the way. And a smattering of piano lessons.”

“Ah, yes, your good old piano days where I was forced to wait on the couch until you finished practicing scales and we could get back to building our tree house.”

Anna stuck a hand on her hip. “Yeah, that was torture for you, alright. I don’t have one iota of sympathy for you.”

Chad laughed and grasped her hand, navigating the pools of water, their feet squishing in the foot-high water lapping about their calves. “I get no compassion.”

When they rounded an outcropping of the cliff, a small tide pool lay in shadow at their feet. Anna kicked off her water shoes and knelt in the damp sand. Every time she lifted a knee, a small depression in the sand left a watery circle.

“Look, we’re leaving water dimples in the sand.” She paused mid-sentence, her throat constricting. The strangest feeling had come over her and her heart began to thud against her ribs.

“What’s wrong?” Chad asked, crouching next to Anna while she stared into the dark circle of water about five feet across and half a foot deep. Three starfish leisurely crawled across the bottom of it, along with a snail and a sea sponge as well as several pink and green sea anemones.

“I’m having the most peculiar moment of déjà vu,” Anna said slowly.

Chad pointed to a corner of the tide pool. “Look,” he said. “Buried under these pebbles are a couple of mussels. When the water laps the sides of the pool, the sea tugs them up out of the sand.”

“Like they’re being exposed,” Anna said with a soft smile. Gently, she reached out and ran a light finger along the back of a pale pink starfish. It recoiled, undulating underneath the shining dark water.

A sudden tear rolled down Anna’s face. “Good grief, where did that come from?” she said, embarrassed while she wiped it away with the back of her hand.

“You okay?” Chad touched her chin and lifted her eyes to his. “Seeing these beautiful creatures is enough to make anybody weep.”

“The sea life is simply astonishing, but it’s not the starfish or the sea anemones that’s making me emotional.” Anna tasted salt on her lips from the tears. She wrapped her arms around her knees, rocking backward on the rock ridge surrounding the tide pool. “I just realized that it wasn’t my father who brought me here for the first time.

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