The Secrets of Water by Wendy Nelson-Sinclair

Author:Wendy Nelson-Sinclair [Nelson-Sinclair, Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2020-01-18T18:00:00+00:00

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“Do you ever regret breaking up with Sheila?” Lizzie asked as the natural lull of silence came to an end. Sebastian startled and met Lizzie with a look of confusion. They still stood by Edith’s pond. The sun had just started to dip below the tree line, harkening the end of day and announcing the beginning of twilight.

“Not at all. What made you think of her?” he asked a little too harshly, but Lizzie paid it no mind.

“Because your life would be so different. I know that you really loved her... for a time.”

“And you’re obviously forgetting that she was a lying, cheating gold-digger who threatened to kill you.”

“I will never forget that, Sebastian. Not in a thousand years.”

“Neither will I. I remember when you confessed to me how she treated you. That night has stayed with me ever since. When you said that she threatened to kill you, I wanted her blood. If she’d been anywhere near, I would have choked the life from her.”

“But lucky for you, she was back in the States and you didn’t go to jail for murder.”

“True. It didn’t stop me from confronting her about it, though.”

Lizzie’s attention had refocused on the water, but her head snapped around with a dizzying speed upon hearing Sebastian’s words.

“When did you confront her?” she asked curiously but still in full possession of an irrational fear.

“When Virginia and I got back home. I headed over to Phil’s house. Sheila moved in with him the day after her performance on the front porch,” Sebastian recalled. “When she answered the door, I tackled her and ripped her from one end back to the other. I told her that I knew it all—every threat, every cruel deed, and especially the attempt on your life. I told her that if she even so much as looked in your direction or even thought about you, she’d live to regret it.”

“Sebastian,” Lizzie said his name, moved by the force of his passion to defend her.

“Phil overheard it all, too. He was standing at the bottom of the stairs carrying groceries when I lit into her. After hearing that she threatened to kill you, he kicked her out and threw her stuff out onto the lawn.”

“You know, I would like to say that there was no need. That what’s done is done, but I won’t. Instead, all I will say is thank you, Sebastian.” Lizzie said gratefully.

“I wasn’t going to let her skate by without paying some kind of consequence. No one threatens you. No one.”

Lizzie watched Sebastian’s eyes for several seconds as a missed connection tried to come together inside her brain. After a few failed attempts, Lizzie refocused on the present, rather than trying to distinguish the missing piece.

“I suppose we should go,” Sebastian said as if he just noticed the change in the light.

“I suppose we should, too,” Lizzie echoed his words. “No doubt Hazel will have dinner ready by the time we get there. I don’t know she does it with a broken leg.

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