Ensnared (Sea Dragons of Amber Bay Book 2) by Zoe Ashwood

Author:Zoe Ashwood [Ashwood, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-29T16:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

Skye

“Swimming.”

Ty seems so pleased with himself, and I have to remind myself that he’s a sea dragon. Maybe he doesn’t know that humans can’t survive long in water as cold as in this bay. I’ve been to the beach several times now, and though I dipped my fingers in the water, it certainly wasn’t warm enough to be inviting.

“Ty, I don’t know how to tell you, but I’m not…”

I struggle with how to finish the sentence without hurting his feelings. He looks so excited about this date that he’s planned.

“I can’t go swimming with you. I’ll get hypothermia.”

“Aha,” he says. “But you won’t. I’ve brought something for you.”

He lifts a large duffel bag that I haven’t noticed before. With trepidation, I tug at the zipper and uncover…

Ew. The smell hits me first, of old socks and wet dog.

“What the hell, man?” Jack cringes back, his nose wrinkled.

Yeah, if I can smell it, so can he with his much more sensitive nose.

“It’s a wet suit,” Ty explains. “It’s a little old, but it’s the only one that’ll fit you. We have a couple more in storage. Tourists sometimes use them when they want to do underwater photography or some shit.”

“And they all smell like this?” Jack asks.

Ty shakes his head from side to side. “I think this one is the worst. But it’s the smallest of the bunch, and it needs to fit Skye properly or it won’t do shit as insulation.”

I reach inside and bring out a black neoprene suit, a one-piece with long sleeves and legs and a hood. “And this will protect me from freezing?”

Ty nods, eager as a puppy. “Yeah. We can also blow hot bubbles at you if you get too cold.”

Hot bubbles?

I glance up at Jack again, and he shrugs as if to say, ‘You might as well go with it.’

For a moment, I debate with myself whether this is a spectacularly bad idea. The day is overcast and windy, but I suppose this is as warm as Alaska gets on late September afternoons.

“Okay,” I relent. “Let me get changed.”

Five minutes later, I’m ready. The neoprene sticks to my skin and rubs uncomfortably on my thighs, but it fits well enough. The sleeves and legs are still a little too long, so I turn them back, and the zipper strains over my breasts. Other than that, I think it’ll do the trick. Even the smell gets less noxious after a couple of minutes. Princess Penny doesn’t seem to agree. She comes close, sniffs me, barks, and retreats.

“Yeah, I get that,” I tell her.

Ty pulls a pair of black booties from the bag and hands them to me. “We won’t be doing any diving today, so I didn’t bring the oxygen tanks. Besides, you’d need to get certified for that. I thought we’d just try and see if you like it, and then we can get you your own wet suit and gear so you don’t have to borrow this one.”

He’s talking fast and fumbles with the zipper, so I take his hand and smile up at him.

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