To the Sea (Follow your Bliss) by Deirdre Riordan Hall

Author:Deirdre Riordan Hall [Hall, Deirdre Riordan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-01-24T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Kira quickly packed the boxes she’d brought down from Jeremy’s office in the Mercedes, grabbed her checkbook, and the photo of Jeremy and Courtney, along with her camera.

After several trips, the road to the shore was familiar, and she arrived swiftly. Kira and Ian continued their usual routine of peacefully watching the waves as the sun appeared, in a pink-copper blaze.

Ian took a deep breath. “This is nice, being here with—” A car honked from behind and Kira startled. He looked at her meaningfully. For a flash, she envisioned him pulling her against his toned chest, wrapping his arms around her, and telling her everything was all right.

A couple of his buddies thumped him on the shoulders.

“Brah,” one of them said.

Ian gave Kira a smile, dimples and all, took up his board, and padded across the sand. Just before tossing himself in the water, he looked over his shoulder at Kira, and then paddled out to the lineup.

With a thrill of excitement, she vaulted over the cement wall to her car and grabbed her camera. She rushed toward the water and started clicking. When Ian caught a wave, she snapped him in the surfer’s crouch. She captured him with his arm outstretched behind him as his hand made an impression, like a trail, on the wave. She took others of him as still as stone, the surging water propelling him on. It felt good to see the world through her own lens again.

Before long, it was Kira’s lesson. She gleefully bounded into the water. They started with Ian pushing her into the waves and calling popup, just as they had been.

After a few rides Ian said, “I have an idea.”

Kira was as eager to hear what it was, as she was to be out in the water with him. He was tuned to comfort and ease; all Kira had to do was be in his proximity to receive the same signal. She’d never felt that way around a guy before. It was different from Jamie. With him, it was carnal, pure pleasure, a glorious feast for the senses, but Ian appealed to her in a different, more even-keeled way. Their fingers grazed, and then he steadied her on the board, his broad hand on her back. She felt an excited tingling, but it wasn’t urgent or self-conscious like the one she experienced with Jamie. It was playful, yet patient, honest, yet expansive.

“And your idea is—”

“What if instead of pushing you into a wave, we begin working on you paddling into one on your own?”

It had crossed Kira’s mind that was something she wanted to do, eventually. However, she didn’t want to give up the connection they shared. Like using training wheels when learning to ride a bike, when he helped her into the wave, it felt like teamwork, companionship. She wasn’t sure she was ready to go it alone.

“Not to worry, I’ll be right here with you. I’ll tell you when to paddle and when to popup; you just have to do the work.

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