A Good Chance (The Siren Island Series Book 3) by Tricia O'Malley

Author:Tricia O'Malley [O'Malley, Tricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lovewrite Publishing
Published: 2020-02-24T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 20

On the list of stupid things she’d done in her life – which honestly wasn’t that long if you didn’t count the stunts that Ruby pulled her into periodically – this had to be pretty high up there, Avery decided as they climbed over rocks slick with algae and covered with barnacles. Night had settled upon them and only the light from the two headlamps and the rising moon showed their path. They moved slowly, Cherylynn in the front with her light, Lisette in the middle with no light, and Avery in the back, lighting the way for both Lisette and herself as they did their best not to slip and slide across the rocks or get sliced by the sharp shells of the barnacles.

Lisette moved with ease and confidence, her bare feet hugging the rocks, and Avery could see more and more clearly that she was an ocean-going California girl. Nothing really seemed to gross her out or bother her, which was not what Avery would have expected when she first met her. She’d assumed that Lisette would be the first to scream at a bug or cry at a broken nail, yet she’d done nothing but be kind, easy-going, and funny to be around this whole time. It wouldn’t be hard for Beckett to fall in love with someone like her, Avery thought as they clambered over a particularly large boulder. The waves snapped against the rocks, slapping saltwater in their faces, and Avery paused to wipe her eyes so she could see again.

She herself, on the other hand, seemed to be a bit of a mess, she realized. Even though she’d had a nice epiphany on the beach earlier, it had been kind of like ripping the Band-Aid off, and now all sorts of emotions were flooding through her. The realization that she’d essentially become a hermit to protect herself was making her sad for the years she’d lost, not to mention the bitterness about men she’d also managed to pick up along the way.

It had hurt, more than she’d admitted to anyone, when her boyfriend had left her after the accident. He hadn’t signed up to help someone recover from such a catastrophic event, and had left her with a “Glad you’re not dead” shortly after she’d come out of the coma. Sure, they’d only been dating for six months, but Avery had expected he would stay by her side through a tough situation. The harsh reality of recovery mixed with rejection had spiraled her into a pretty low point in her life. Could anyone blame her for not trusting men after that?

“What are you muttering about back there?” Lisette asked as they continued to climb over the rocks, the light of the fire growing smaller by the second. Avery wondered if or how the cameramen were catching this – she couldn’t imagine that they would be climbing over these boulders with cameras on their shoulders.

“Um, just… nothing, really,” Avery said, pushing her stuff to the side to focus on the task at hand.

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