Healing Dance by Samantha Cayto

Author:Samantha Cayto [Cayto, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Erotic Romance Fiction
ISBN: 9781786518286
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group Ltd
Published: 2019-09-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Brenin sat up and stretched his arms over his head. “This has been an awesome day.” He patted his bare stomach. “If I keep eating like this, I’m going to develop a pot, though.”

“You can work off the calories with sex,” Mackie said from where he remained lying on his towel. He was the only one not taking shelter under one of the two big umbrellas they’d stuck in the sand.

“It doesn’t burn that many,” Lucien countered without looking up from the book he’d been reading. Demi’s father was nominally their chaperone, with the job of making sure they didn’t wander off. It would have been insulting if the man weren’t so utterly chill.

“Ugh, Dad, please don’t remind me that you and Papa still do it.”

“Forgive me, Demi. I had thought you and your friends were all mature.” Lucien’s dry put-down surprised Brenin. The man appeared docile and conservative, and yet he was no pushover and far more fun than expected.

“I’ll never be that grown-up.”

Lucien sighed. “See what you have to look forward to, Dafydd?”

There was a subtle shift in the atmosphere around them, as if everyone worried about how the former slave would react to something that should have been mundane for the average father.

From where he lay on his side, watching his son sleep off his ice cream coma, Dafydd appeared relaxed. “I’ve got lots of time for that, don’t I?”

There was another silent shimmer in the air around them as everyone else accepted that there’d been no faux-pas. While it was hard to identify exactly how, Dafydd was different that day. It had started at breakfast when he’d entered the saloon with Idris on his hip and Ric trailing behind him. Dafydd had appeared well-rested and almost cheery. Then there’d been the way he’d returned from the pilot house, again with Ric close behind. If Brenin hadn’t known better, he would have pegged them as a couple. Add to that how Dafydd had readily joined them in their beach excursion and there was a definite sense of optimism.

His friend was improving, and it wasn’t because he was popping pills indiscriminately with booze chasers. Brenin was certain of that for two reasons. One was that Ric obviously had taken on the task of monitoring Dafydd. The other was that no one as clear-eyed and energetic as Dafydd seemed could have been loaded to the gills.

Brenin wanted to ask Dafydd about it, but he feared if he did, it might break the cycle of good cheer. Since the previous night and his frank talk with Malcolm, he’d become more determined to get help from whatever source. To that end, he glanced at Jase. Seeing the boy had also sat up, he decided to get better acquainted with him and pick his brains for solutions. Of the three of them who’d suffered horrible abuse, Jase seemed the best adjusted. It could be a good front, yet he didn’t think so.

Standing, he stretched once more and sauntered to the far side of Jase.

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