The Remingtons_Leap, Laugh, Love by Rachelle Ayala

Author:Rachelle Ayala [Ayala, Rachelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2015-05-18T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Kerry didn’t thrash or fight. The churning of water filled her ears, and she was tossed and turned, being dragged down. She closed her eyes and covered her heart. Make it quick. Please, make it quick. I’m sorry, Mom. The life insurance should cover your costs. Dad, where are you?

If this was death, it was painless. Loving arms wrapped around her and lifted her. She opened her eyes, expecting to see Jesus.

“Finn!” She swallowed water. “What the hell? Where’s the shark?”

“Got’cha!” He threw his head back and laughed.

“No, really, where’s the shark?” Realization slapped her that he’d set the entire thing up. Tonight’s the night. The moon is waning. We better get out there. “You jerk! I’m going to kill you.”

He pushed her back to arm’s length and grabbed his board. “That’s funny, a minute ago you were worried you’d committed murder by shark.”

“It’s not funny.” She slapped the water. “Was there really a shark, or did you fake that fin I saw?”

“Oh, it was real,” Finn said, his demeanor darkening as he pulled himself onto his board. “We should get out of the water.”

She was still treading water, so she lunged at him and poked his ribs. “You’re lying, trying to scare me.”

“Ranger’s honor.” He held up his hand and pointed to the camera strapped on his head. “You’ll see it on my video. That shark was out there.”

“Liar.” Kerry scanned the waters. “Where is it? I don’t believe you.”

Now that the fright was over, she wouldn’t put it past Finn to somehow rig an inflatable dorsal fin and send it floating across the water. Maybe he’d hidden it under his wetsuit and slipped it into the water while she was paddling out.

“I scared it away, seriously.” Finn made fists and pumped them in the air. “I was paddling toward it, cussing and swearing.”

“Oh, right, so I’m going to believe you scared a sixteen foot, thirty-five hundred pound great white?”

Finn glanced over his shoulder. “We should be going. Believe me or not, you’ll see tomorrow on the internet.”

“Internet? You’re seriously going to post our illegal surfing on the internet? What are you trying to do, ruin my career?”

“Chill, dudette. I meant the shark tracker updates. This here video is between you and me. Private.” He lay on his board and paddled over a wave. “We better surf out of here before the shark returns.”

Horror tingled down Kerry’s legs, and she pulled herself out of the water and onto her board. Maybe the shark was below, waiting to attack. Shit. Shit. Shit.

Don’t freak, don’t freak. Finn’s out here. He won’t let anything happen to me. Unless he set it up, and there’s no shark. None at all.

She blew out a breath. Either way, she wasn’t sticking around any longer. Looking back, she picked a decent sized wave.

Beside her, Finn popped up onto his board, catching the wave with her. He held out his hand, and she latched onto it. Side by side, they rode the long, rolling wave to the edge of the beach.

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