The Siege by Marilyn Baron

Author:Marilyn Baron [Baron, Marilyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Women's Fiction, Suspense, Greece
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2017-11-17T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Theia and Wade lay on beach towels, bodies lightly touching, soaking in the warm rays of the summer sun. Both wore sunglasses. Theia’s face was also covered with a straw hat for extra protection.

Their tour guide had dropped them off for a picnic on a deserted cove in a private bay in Chania, near where Theia’s grandparents used to live. She wondered if they had ever come here to be alone, if her grandfather had ever painted this exact scene. If Theo and Eleni had made love on this very spot. She’d dreamed of these sandy, secluded beaches, with their colored pebbles—Balos, Falassama, Elafonissi—before she ever knew they existed. She’d painted those beaches, too, without ever having seen them. She was determined to visit all the places her ya-ya had mentioned in her letters, all the places she had been with her lover, her husband, Theia’s biological grandfather. She’d dreamed of a man, too. But she could never recall his face. He was an illusion.

Tomorrow, she was going to take her camera, capture the beach scenes as closely as possible, and start to bring her dreams to life on her sketch pad. And now she had a face to put with the man in her dreams. Wade’s face. But today was all about relaxing, letting the stress seep out of her body, unwinding, no thoughts of terrorists or world wars or the time when she and Wade would have to part. She knew that day was coming soon. She’d already begun pulling away from Wade in her mind, and then she would have to let him go physically. She’d started at the synagogue, when she announced she was going on alone to New York. She would have loved to have his company, but nothing permanent could come of their relationship, so it was better to let him go now.

Theia removed her hat and looked through her giant sunglasses at the crystal blue waters of the paradise in front of her. She wriggled her toes in the soft sand and closed her eyes. She wore a white two-piece bathing suit to show off what few curves she had, and she’d finished off her outfit with gold strappy sandals, which would kill her ankle but exuded sex appeal, she hoped. She had to admit she’d wanted to look appealing for Wade, even though she and Wade could never end up together. He was wrong for her in every possible way. She removed her sunglasses, stole a look at Wade, and closed her mouth around her teeth, a fallback habit. The pull was strong.

“Don’t close your mouth, Theia.”

“There’s an ugly space between my teeth. I was born with it. Now that I know my grandfather had that same space, I am starting to get used to it.”

“That space drives me insane. I love that space. Open up and let me look at you.”

“Like a dentist or a horse trader?” Theia wrinkled her nose.

“I would prefer like a lover. I adore every part of your body.

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