Waterfell by Amalie Howard

Author:Amalie Howard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

14

PAPER WALLS

The marine center beach is crowded with people who want to see the amazing green jellyfish that showed up hundreds of miles from where they usually live. I have to hand the credit to Echlios and Speio—it’s a brilliant cover. Biologists are coming up with all kinds of theories that the jellyfish migrated following cooler waters or a food source.

I didn’t think my theory of them having the hots for a certain blond boy would fly so I stayed quiet and kept myself busy. It’s the most action the marine center has seen in weeks, since a whale beached itself a few months ago. Echlios relented to let me do a couple volunteer shifts at the center, especially after I insinuated that people would ask questions if I didn’t at least put in an appearance. It was a total lie, of course, but it worked.

Well, with Soren’s help.

Echlios narrowed his eyes and stared at me suspiciously, but then caved when Soren gave him the look. She is quiet, but she has her ways of getting things done. I tried to tell her thanks but she only shushed me and said that I needed to have a breather away from the house—and her husband.

It’s also been nice to see Jenna outside of school, and, of course, Lo, who has regular shifts at the center. He confessed to me during one of our late-night phone calls that he only agreed to Leland’s suggestion for working there because of me and hadn’t realized that he would end up liking it so much. It reminded him of the work he used to do in Hawaii with his foster dad. He’s now a regular, although he isn’t working today.

Which is why when he shows up at the front desk where I’m doing some filing to get away from the crowds out back, I’m baffled.

“Hey,” Lo says.

“What are you doing here?”

“You’re here. So I’m here, too.” His words could incinerate ice, far less a girl with a definite non-icy heart. I’m hanging on by a thread not to be a puddle on the floor.

“Oh.” It’s the only word I can translate from my brain to my mouth. Everything else is gibberish. “But you don’t work today.”

“No, but you do.” And...puddle.

Lo’s dressed in board shorts and a plain black T-shirt. His sandy hair is a windblown mess that makes me ache to smooth it with my fingers, but I restrain the urge. “When do you get off work?” he asks me.

“Couple hours.”

“What do you have to do?”

“Get more jellyfish samples,” I say with a resigned look. “We’ve got an hour of daylight left so I have to leave now.”

“Want some company? I’m volunteering my services,” he says, bowing with a flourish. “It’s your lucky day!”

We check in with Kevin, who is so totally bombarded by questions that he just nods insensibly in our direction, so we take that as a yes and load up the boat. I toss in our scuba gear and we’re off to find Speio’s harem.

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