Finding Her by Marian Snowe

Author:Marian Snowe [Snowe, Marian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance
Published: 2019-10-15T23:00:00+00:00

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On Saturday, Nan agreed to go down to the shore below the lighthouse with me.

“I kind of want to give that part of the bay the middle finger, you know?” she joked as we walked down the cement cliffside path. “Specifically whatever rocks nailed my boat.” Then she paused and put her mouth to one side. “Of course, if they hadn’t, I never would’ve met you... So maybe I should be thanking them.”

I felt my cheeks begin to warm. She was that glad to have gone through something traumatic just to meet me?

“I just wish you hadn’t had to nearly die so we could meet,” I said, glancing at her with a little smile. “But I guess I’m grateful to those rocks too.” Nan watched me, and her lips curved sweetly. When she looked at me like that, calling her a “knockout” was almost literal.

We walked along the shore for a while, from one side of the causeway around the bottom beneath the lighthouse to the other side and back again. We picked up a few pretty shells and pieces of sea glass that we thought Annalee would like, and then we made our way back home.

It was another quiet, relaxing day, and I found myself yearning for more days like this. If I could just forget about everything that complicated all this—Nan’s secrets, her worrying cageyness, Holly’s selfish meddling and threats—then maybe we could be happy together. The kisses we shared proved how compatible we were.

They were such good kisses, too. I daydreamed about them, and I wasn’t the daydreaming type. Daydreams about Nan’s soft lips were better than worrying about what my ex-wife was telling my daughter at this exact moment.

After dinner that night, I got out our air popper and plugged it in. “How about that movies-and-popcorn idea we talked about?” I asked. “I have a good recipe for cinnamon-sugar popcorn as well as the usual butter kind.”

“That sounds fantastic,” Nan said. She went over to the television and picked up the remote. “Want me to look and see what’s on Netflix?” Then with a pointed frown she added, “Nothing that I’m in.”

I laughed. “You’ve already made that clear. Yeah, pick whatever you want.”

“You like romances, right?” Nan pursed her lips impishly as she scrolled through movies. “Okay, I got one. I’ll help with the popcorn.”

We made three varieties of popcorn (butter, cinnamon sugar, and chili lime) and then settled down on the couch. The movie Nan had picked was one I’d seen and didn’t mind re-watching a hundred times.

It was everything I loved about romances: an atmospheric setting on a windswept Scottish moor, a beautiful score, and a compelling story about a dashing but lonely shepherd and the lost hiker she rescues and falls for.

In fact, now that I thought about it, it really did resemble what had happened with me and Nan.

“Uncanny, right?” she asked when I told her I’d always liked this movie.

“Yeah,” I replied. “Though I never imagined I’d be watching it with someone I reenacted the plot with.

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